A charming interpretation, directed and produced by Mike Movido and Hannah Kultgen in the fullest sense: Kultgen also did the translation, Movido did the music, and it’s their voices reading the poem in the soundtrack. Molvido says,

This is quite possibly my favorite video project that I did in college. The assignment was to choose a poem to interpret visually, but not literally. BREC 4275 – Advanced Production and Direction class at Marquette University.

One of my own videos, using footage I shot last spring of a garter snake mating ball to illustrate a favorite poem from the great 20th-century Spanish poet Pedro Salinas. I recently found an audio track of Salinas himself reading the poem, and dubbed that over some public-domain electronica from the Internet Archive.

Salinas left out one phrase from the printed version of the poem, which I’ve represented in the subtitles with an ellipsis: “que… [es la nada]” — “which… [is the nothing].”