Cadence 2020 – End Times: Video Poetry Showcase [Online]
This event took place on Apr 19, 2020
Sliding scale admission: $0–25
Please pay what you can; proceeds support our move to a virtual platform!
Each showcase will be available to view for 24 hrs from the listed showtime (PDT).
Cadence is SCREENING ONLINE! NWFF’s physical space is temporarily closed in light of public health concerns around COVID-19, but community, dialogue, and education through media arts WILL persist.
• • HOW TO WATCH • •
- Purchase a ticket through Brown Paper Tickets in advance of the listed showtime (PDT). Registration ends 1 hour before the start time.
- 30 minutes before each screening, NWFF will send a link and password to your registered e-mail address! (Don’t see it? Check your spam filter.) The password will expire at the end of the 24 hr screening window. No late seating!
- If by showtime you do not receive an e-mail with details, please contact rana@nwfilmforum.org for a quick follow-up. (But please, check your spam!)
If you’d like to support these artists directly, check for their PayPal or Venmo in the program below!
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Cadence: Video Poetry Festival 2020 [Online]
About
The current apocalypse, the post-apocalypse, your personal apocalypse—video poems in this screening address endings. Through premonitions and memories of the dire past, these works draw our attention to how they end, the end of an era, the end of a species, or the end of the world—all through our own making.
Cadence: Video Poetry Festival, presented by Northwest Film Forum, programmed in collaboration with Seattle author Chelsea Werner-Jatzke and artist Rana San, is a series of screenings, workshops, and discussions on the genre of video poetry, throughout National Poetry Month. Cadence fosters critical and creative growth around the medium of video poetry, approaching it as a literary genre presented as visual media.
Image Credit: Entre Les Images by Vito A. Rowlands
Short Film Program:
The Prophetess (La Prophétesse)
(Marco Joubert, Canada, 2020, 3 min)
Still Life with Small Objects of Perfect Choking Size
(Erin Lynch & Keetje Kuipers, Seattle, WA, 3 min)
Video poem by Erin Marie Lynch, based on the poem “Still Life with Small Objects of Perfect Choking Size” by Keetje Kuipers.
Funeral March
(Hisham Bustani & Kazz Torabyeh, Jordan, 10 min)
Into the Woods (Im Walde)
(Moritz Liewerscheidt & Jenny Dam, Germany, 2019, 2 min)
Into the Woods is a cinematic approach to a short poem from the 1980s by German poet Dieter Liewerscheidt – and a homage to the style of Henri Rousseau’s naïve art.
an entombing(dis)entombing
(Adam E. Stone, US, 2020, 1 min)
Entre Les Images
(Vito A. Rowlands, Belgium/USA, 2020, 4 min)
A young woman laments the loss of her innocence and mourns her lover as Europe is ravaged by war in the summer of 1914. This found footage film is composed of original 35mm nitrate film stills from lost or partially preserved prints.
The Blue from Heaven
(Suzie Hanna & Stevie Smith, UK, 2019, 4 min)
Glenda Jackson provides the voice of poet Stevie Smith in this animated interpretation of her extraordinary 1950s poem The Blue from Heaven. Suzie Hanna has adapted and animated the poet’s own drawings to communicate her rueful, wistful, comic, and melancholy themes with music and sound design by Phil Archer.
The Tiger (Le Tigre)
(bobie [Yves Bommenel], France, 2019, 3 min)
Shutter
(Stephen Howie & Maria McLeod, Sedro Woolley, WA, 2019, 1 min)
Evelyn
(Perry Jonsson & Kevin Mclean, UK, 2018, 4 min)
Spoken word poet Kevin Mclean performs Evelyn, a poem written about his mother’s passing.
Capitol Kitsch
(Stalin Santiago & Jessica Rodriguez, US, 2020, 2 min)
Capitol Kitsch is a brief meditation on the rapid changes brought to people by corporate interest and gentrification.
Plasticnic
(Fiona Tinwei Lam & Tisha Deb Pillai, Vancouver, BC, 2018, 1 min)
Plasticnic is an animated short poem that wryly depicts the extent and impact of the accumulation of plastic in the environment as people ceaselessly continue to purchase, use and discard single-use plastics. We seek out and enjoy nature while simultaneously destroying it.
Prologue
(Adam Mańkowski & Mark Tardi, Poland, 2019, 3 min)
It could be Chernobyl, Chicago, or a dystopian near future; and it could be a world more wolf than lion, more hyena than either. Prologue, a video poem, based on an excerpt from book The Circus of Trust by Mark Tardi.
Somewhere between fear and anxiety
(Stephen Howard Bean, Ireland, 2020, 4 min)
The words of Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky torment a mother’s mind.
Fragile Vehicles (Les Supports fragiles)
(Hélène Matte, Canada, 3 min)
A video poem about fragility and obsolescence.
Commit to Memory: The Precipice of Extinction
(Cheryl Gross & Nicelle Davis, US, 2019, 16 min)
Commit to Memory: The Precipice of Extinction is a multi-platform project by Cheryl Gross and Nicelle Davis, addressing the eventual disappearance of our culture using animals as metaphors. We explore issues of global warming, displacement, assault, and poverty.
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Cadence: Video Poetry Festival
Cadence, the only festival dedicated to video poetry in the PNW, fosters critical and creative growth around its genre. This year we will host five online showcases of short video poetry works by 83 artists from 20 different countries, selected from an open call for submissions and solicitations. In 2020, Cadence is moving online for the first time, in response to Washington State’s Stay Home, Stay Safe mandate. All programs priced on a sliding scale.