Cadence: Video Poetry Festival 2021

Foam to Form

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10 films in package
Rotten Fruit
"Rotten Fruit" is an audiovisual poem exploring time, gender, origins, transformation, and self-actualization.
Knot Waking
A dream of the combined afterlife of one thousand trees.
Mad! (Fou!)
The child king learns to walk in the universe. His environment falls as he rises.
L
This short animated film explores the relationship between visual and spoken worlds, when they unite, or when they take separate ways.
Backwards God
"Backwards God" tells the story of how man made God in his image.
Final rest
This poetry film portrays an artist's moments of death: before, during and/or after. Life doesn't end with death. Moments of death are moments of revelation. Man and Woman complete the circle of death. Last sleep becomes first sleep.
Delirium
“Delirium” is a short film based on the poem “Lethe” by Tjawangwa Dema that utilizes original collage artwork and animation techniques, intertwined with live-action videography, to express the mutable reality of a character with a cognitive affliction.
A Scale for Hurt
"A Scale for Hurt" explores the question: How can we comprehend a scale that is so much bigger than ourselves – a scale that is far too big to feel?
nothing comes close
Part of an ongoing collaboration across space and time, “nothing comes close” breathes life into a summer scene, exploring the protective power of love between friends. Original text of "nothing comes close" forthcoming in Rogue Agent, May 2021.
Closed captions available
Winter Sleep
This poem and film, in conversation, ask viewers to reckon with the devastating socio-environmental impact of agribusiness, a clarifying task in re-conceiving new horizons.

The phrase “foam to form” appears in two video poems in this program, both made in 2020 – one generated by eight University of Washington Bothell students, and the other by an Austrian artist. Incidentally, both creative teams were working in response to “Lethe,” a poem by Botswana-based writer Tjawangwa Dema. This synchronicity, as well as the very different outcomes of the two pieces, exemplifies the theme of this screening: something taking shape out of frothing emotions, divine conception, nascent nostalgia, or organic material. Every piece you’ll see is an excellent example of formal exploration in video poetry.

Backwards God tells the story of how man made God in his image. The film interweaves elements of ecology and spirituality to retell the book of Genesis through a womanist lens.

  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    6 minutes
  • Language
    English, with hardcoded English subtitles
  • Country
    United States
  • Note
    Poet: Natalie Cook
  • Director
    Natalie Cook
  • Producer
    Natalie Cook, Jason Cermak
  • Cast
    Ian Banks, Genesis Be, Andrew Blair, Natalie Cook, Asia Howard, Honnor Seaton, Wayne Stewart, Ashley Tolbert, Jessica Vernon, Anthony Washington, Brionna Williams
  • Cinematographer
    Jason Cermak
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