ULYSSES

A man who survived by becoming Nobody comes home to a house that has forgotten his name — and must prove, with wine, a bow, a bed, and rain, that he is still the root.

In vino veritas. · Ego sum vitis, vos palmites.

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For the jury

One-sheet

Title: Ulysses
Format: Interactive cinematic web experience
Reel: 1-minute film · olive bed · 16:9 · under 99 seconds
Movements: 10 movements · three acts
Language: English · Latin
Source: After Homer, The Odyssey

Submission deadlines

No single contest owns this work. These are the open windows that fit a one-minute cinematic reel and an interactive web nostos, as each festival published them. Nearest first close: SXSW, 25 August 2026.

Closes are 23:59 Pacific unless a festival says otherwise. In South Africa that is the following morning (08:59 SAST if PDT, 09:59 SAST if PST). Confirm on the festival page before you pay.

Statement

This entry is a nostos told in rain and wine. A single courtyard still — a warrior taking his wife’s face in the wet — is the film. The cave, the dog, the bow, the stairs, and the vineyard exist only to climb toward that embrace, then to prove it: the same rain has already been to the root.

He survives as Nobody. He returns as a vintage. The slaughter is the cut we hold off-screen. The work lingers on who is left to say his name.

Stills

Nemo — the cup
Nostos — the dog
The embrace
Vitis — the vintage

Credits

Source: Homer, The Odyssey
Epigraph: Richard Crashaw · Benjamin Franklin
Scripture: John 15:5
Close: Ubi bene, ibi patria