Cadence Video Poetry Festival

4:30pm-Apr 20,2024
(73 Min TRT)
Simultaneously The Products Of Our Lineage, Environment, And Interactions, We Miraculously Retain Our Individual Edges. How Can We Integrate All Our Identities As Essential To The Whole? How Does Miming Past Generations Feed Our Future Selves? How Will We Transcend Fantasies To Build A Castle Of Our Own? Through A Translator, An Immigrant, A Tourist, A Voicemail, A Fairytale, And Others, These Video Poems Ask: How, And How Often, Do We (Re)Make Ourselves?

Films In This Program:

Chinatown Diptych

West Coast Premiere!
American Poet Jenny Xie Performs Her Poem “Chinatown Diptych” While Roaming The Scenes And Textures Of New York City’s Chinatown.
(Director: Jean Coleman, Poet: Jenny Xie, US, 2021, 3 Min, In English With No Subtitles Or Captions)

Leafmold

World Premiere!
Spun From Chambered Secrets And Texts Read Under The Full Moon, This Essay Film / Experimental Documentary / Video Poem About Gender Decay Explores Contradictions Of Masculinity And The Feminine Threshold.
(Benja Thompson, US, 2024, 7 Min, In English With English Subtitles And Hardcoded English Text)

Wolf Lake - Bachinsky Version

In A Dramatized Narrative Written And Told By Canadian Poet Elizabeth Bachinsky, A Young Woman Speaks Of Her Ordeal At Wolf Lake. The Coast Mountains Of British Columbia Make A Lush Backdrop To Her Harrowing Story Of Violence And Betrayal. Wolf Lake Is From Elizabeth Bachinsky’s Excellent Collection Home Of Sudden Service, Nightwood Editions, 2006.
(Director: Michael V. Smith, Poet: Elizabeth Bachinsky, Canada, 2006, 5 Min, In English With English Captions)

A House, A Body, A Wildish Thing

World Premiere!
A House, A Body, A Wildish Thing Serves As An Invitation To Participate In Sensory Recollection And Investigation Of Duality In The Human Experience, By Leaning Into The Curious And Whimsical.
Generated During The 2024 Cadence Artist Residency.
(Livia Glascock, United States, 2024, 6 Min, In English With English Subtitles)

Key

World Premiere!
Seven Year Old Eve Runs Away With The Bejeweled Key To The King’s Castle, Only To Get Lost – But With The Help Of A Strange Guiding Force, She Finds That She Can Build A Castle Of Her Own.
(James E. Kenward, United Kingdom & Germany, 2023, 7 Min, In English With English Captions)

The River (Ріка)

US Premiere!
A Lyrical Reflection By A Ukrainian Woman Who Finds Herself On The Riverbank And Remembers Her Home And Her Family On The Other Side. The River Is About Realizing Oneself In A New Space, Feeling The Spirit Of Ancestors, And Rethinking The Experience Of The Ongoing War.
(Director: Svitlana Rudiuk, Poet: Olena Pashuk (Kytsan), Ukraine, 2023, 2 Min, In Ukrainian With Hardcoded English Subtitles)

Desert Poems

World Premiere!
Desert Poems Is A Film Built Around A Poem By Sami Miranda That Speaks To Objects Left In The Desert By Migrants Crossing Into The US.
(Directors: Sami Miranda & Ellie Walton, Poet: Sami Miranda, US, 2024, 2 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Subtitles)

Les Corps Aqueux

US Premiere!
CW: Nudity
Les Corps Aqueux Is An Experimental Film That Explores Gender Identity Outside The Binary. By Constructing A Theatrical Space Comprised Of Designed Sets, Staged Radio Interviews, Found Footage Vignettes, And Overlays, It Explores The Relationship Between The Body And The Self. Inside That Space, Uncertainty Is Finally Allowed To Exist.
(Filémon Brault-Archambeault, Canada, 2023, 5 Min, In English & French With English Subtitles)

Postcard Home From English Bay - Chainsmoking Seagulls

Just A Normal Day At English Bay.
(Zak Zastera, Canada, 2023, 2 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Text)

How To Make An ASMR Dumpling

This Film Invites Immigrants With Asian Heritage To Join An Immersive ASMR Cooking Show In Which Participants Make Dumplings Together. It Is Part Of An Ongoing Project Called “From Scratch: Tasting The Tenderness In Food Production,” Whose Aim Is To Bring Awareness To The Often Diminished Labor Of Immigrants, As Well As Provide Space For Healing From The Trauma Of The Global Pandemic.
(Yixuan Pan, US, 2023, 3 Min, In English With English Intertitles)

Identity Portraits

Northwest Premiere!
Three Short Portrait Films That Weave Together Spoken Word And Visual Form To Reflect The Identity, Joy, And Power Of Individuals From The Transgender And Nonbinary Community.
(Director: Sasha Marie Speer, Poets: Jaden Smith, Nancy Azcona & Andy Sánchez, US, 2023, 7 Min, In English & Spanish With Hardcoded English Subtitles)

Her Plot Of Blue Sky

West Coast Premiere!
Centering A Group Of Women Who Reside In A Care Home In A Small Market Town Of Sefrou, Morocco, Her Plot Of Blue Sky Is A Record Of One Of The Days The Women Were Seen Using The Cameras. Woven Into Their Narratives Is Rachida Madani’s Poem, “Tales Of A Severed Head.”
(Director: Kamila Kuc, Poets: Kamila Kuc, Rachida Madani & Fatima Ezerkawi, United Kingdom, 2022, 23 Min, In English & Arabic With Hardcoded English Subtitles)

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7:30pm-Apr 20,2024
(76 Min TRT)
Poetry Has A History Of Getting People In Trouble. Throughout Time, Poetry Has Been Suppressed And Poets Persecuted For Not Writing The Party Line. This Showcase Gives Voice To The Outcasts And The Cast Out, The Identity-Torn Seeking Belonging, And The Otherwise Outlawed. By Questioning The Status Quo And Our Place Within It, These Video Poems Reveal Disruptive Truths. To All Poets Who Persist, Who Write Rebellion, Who Reject Silence And Speak Out—It Can Be Dangerous, But We Are Many And Poetry Provides Us Refuge

Films In This Program:

Midnight Whispers

 A World Where Poetry Is An Illegal Substance, A Dealer Roams Around An Estate Receiving Cash In Exchange For Whispering Lines Of Illicit Verse Into Her Customers’ Ears.
(Director: Baldwin Li, Poets: Linxi Doël & Baldwin Li, United Kingdom, 2023, 10 Min, In English With English Subtitles)

Eve

US Premiere!
An Animated Poetic Retelling Of Adam & Eve’s Story.
(Meghann Plunkett & Miranda Javid, US, 2022, 2 Min, In English With Animated English Subtitles)

Exiles (Exils)

Exiles Is A Conversation With Oneself When The Ground Slips Away Beneath Our Feet. A Forced Journey, When We Would Rather Remain Grounded By Our Roots; The Refusal Of An Imposed Destiny, Out Of Home. A Dreamlike Vision Of A Home-Island That We Cling To; Our Asylum From Chaos.
(Director: Josef Khallouf, Poet: Corinne Boulad, Lebanon, 2023, 5 Min, In French With Hardcoded English Subtitles)

The Racist Bone

West Coast Premiere!
Poet And Cave Canem Co-Founder Cornelius Eady Performs “The Racist Bone,” Exploring The Subtle And Straightforward Aspects Of Racism Through The Lens Of The Classic B-Movie.
(Director: Matthew Thompson, Poet: Cornelius Eady, US, 2022, 3 Min, In English With No Subtitles Or Captions)

Bubble Hat

World Premiere!
Through The Lens Of An Outsider Estranged From Urban Life, Bubble Hat Is An Evocative Poetry Film That Delves Into The Sense Of Alienation Birthed From The Frantic Hustle Of An Automated, Fast-Paced Culture.
(Directors: Maryam Imogen Ghouth & Kama Ranaulo, Poet: Maryam Imogen Ghouth, United Arab Emirates, 2023, 4 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Subtitles)

When I Was Clandestine (Cuando Fui Clandestino)

US Premiere!
Juan Garrido Salgado Immigrated To Australia From Chile In 1990, Fleeing The Regime That Burned His Poetry, Imprisoned Him, And Tortured Him For His Political Activism. “My Verse Is Born By The Nights Of The Curfew… When I Was Clandestine.”
(Director Ian Gibbins, Poet: Juan Garrido Salgado, Australia, 2023, 5 Min, In English & Spanish With Hardcoded Subtitles In Spanish And English)

Walk One Mile

Northwest Premiere!
Incarcerated High School Students Ask You To “Walk One Mile… Just One, In My Shoes.”
(Director: Lindy Boustedt, Poet: Echo Glen H.S. Student, US, 2023, 2 Min, In English With No Subtitles Or Captions)

The Light That Burns Us

World Premiere!
“GREECE, Your Light Caught Us By Your E And Burned Us All The Way To Your G.”A Poetry Film Against Nationalism And The State Of Emergency In Greece.
(Directors: Jazra Khaleed & Silvia Tsompanaki, Poet: Jazra Khaleed, Greece, 2023, 7 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Text)

Broken Arabic

US Premiere!
A Spoken Word Poem About The War Within The Diaspora Child Living Between Two Continents, Unable To Fully Give Their Condolences In The Language Of Their Grief.
(Amal Kassir, US, 2024, 4 Min, In English & Arabic With Hardcoded English And Arabic Subtitles)

Ossip & Marina - The Forbidden Words (Ossip E Marina - Entre As Linhas)

US Premiere!
CW: Nudity And Consensual Intimacy.
The Life And The Verses Of Ossip Mandelstam And Marina Tsvetaeva Incite Us To Use Forbidden Words – Words That We Cannot Speak In Public, Or Even To Our Loved Ones.
(Elcio Basilio, Brazil, 2023, 34 Min, In Portuguese With English Subtitles And Intertitles)

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