May 2018, 1:16 min
Co-directed by Fiona Tinwei Lam & Tisha Deb Pillai
Written and narrated by Fiona Tinwei Lam
Animated by Tisha Deb Pillai
Sound design by Tinjun Niu

This poetry video depicts the blithe and continual accumulation of everyday domestic plastic: we destroy nature while simultaneously attempting to enjoy it. The title marries “plastic” with “picnic” to show how they have become almost inextricably entwined. Based on a shaped poem.

Screenings:

• Athens 7^th International Video Poetry Festival (2018)
• Trenton Film Festival 2019 – WINNER BEST NEW MEDIA
• REELpoetry HoustonTX (2019)
• Newlyn International Short Film Festival UK (2019)
• All Together Now Festival (Michigan, 2019)
• Poetry+Video (Australia 2019)
• The Wrong Biennale of Digital Art and Culture (Online, 2019)
• Inside Out Literary Arts: City Wide Poets program (Detroit 2019)
• Overmountain Animation Festival (Tennessee 2019)
• Ó Bhéal 7th International Poetry Film Festival (Ireland, 2019)
• Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival (Ireland, 2019)
• The Athens 8th International Video Poetry Festival (2019: Poetry+Video reel)
• Los Angeles Animation Festival 2019
• The Word National Center for the Written Word; UK (Poetry+Video reel 2020)
• Lyra Festival (Bristol, UK screening of poetry films on Climate and the Environment 2020)
• Cadence Video Poetry Festival (online) (Seattle 2020)
• Durgapur International Short Film Festival 2020 (India) SEMI-FINALIST
• Zebra Poetry Film Festival 2020 (Berlin)
• Film & Video Poetry Symposium 2020 (L.A.)
• Interfilm International Short Film Festival (Berlin 2020)
• Suri Short Film Festival (West Bengal, 2020)
• Pacific Northwest Mini Lit Fair 2021 (Moss Magazine, Poetry Northwest, Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Fugue Magazine, 2021)
• Nature & Culture Poetry Film Festival (Copenhagen, 2021)
• Colorado Environmental Film Festival (Golden, Colorado, 2023)
• International Migration and Environmental Film Festival IMEFF (Online Toronto, Ontario, June 5-11/23)

Online Publication:

• Watch Your Head (online Canadian anthology on the climate crisis) July/20
• “Plastic Goes Concrete: Two Animated Poetry Videos about Plastic Pollution” in The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment & Culture in Canada, Oct/20