Cadence: Video Poetry Festival 2021

Housed But Never Homed

Expired April 26, 2021 6:59 AM
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13 films in package
A Barcode Scanner
Shot on location at the Chamishko IDP Camp in Northern Iraq, "A Barcode Scanner" reflects the harsh day-to-day realities of the Êzîdîs who survived the Islamic State's genocidal campaign against them.
With Whom Shall We Live?
“With Whom Shall We Live?” illustrates the dangers of history continuing to repeat itself. Using the parallel struggles of Black Americans and Asian Americans, this visual poem anchors the two communities together on common ground.
Homeless
17 homeless, WAYout poets from the streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone came together to write and produce this film.
Barbed Wire Land
Archival video provides the visuals for this video meditation on the invention of barbed wire.
AmeriKKKa
"AmeriKKKa" is a poetry film designed to shed light on the institutional and systemic oppression that African-Americans face in the United States.
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These Homes: Ghazals at the Ends of America
Using foreign yet familiar lenses of form and image, five teenage second-generation Asian American writers splice Street View imagery of their locales into Arabic ghazal lyric poems that meditate on distance and identity.
Lairs Intro - Adaptation/Ekphrasis Award
Lairs
Lairs, layers, liars: In this poetry film, hatred insidiously supplants a couple's love.
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Towers in the Park
A researcher sets out to study architecture in archives from Prague to Zagreb to Stockholm, but finds something else.
I Dream of Water
Writer-filmmaker Edward Gunawan conveys the confining isolation of life under pandemic quarantine in this cine-poem.
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3xShapes of Home Intro - Poetry by Video Artists Award
3xShapes of Home
"3xShapes of Home" is a hybrid essay film, structural experiment, and visual poem that explores formally distinct camera and editing approaches to a filmmaker's home village of Strengelvåg, Norway.
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Shea, by NASRA
A family displaced by greed searches for a new home in a foreign place. As they explore they discover pieces of themselves; old and new. "Shea, by NASRA" celebrates what has always remained in Black/African peoples: an innate sense of home, luxury and interconnectedness.
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There are names for homes that are not on any maps. The complexity of calling a place home while struggling to find acceptance there permeates these video poems. As many of us are spending more time where we dwell than ever before, the gratitude we might feel for our home is colored by a feeling of entrapment. At the same time, the comfort, safety, and services of shelter are by no means guaranteed. This screening is for the displaced, the vulnerable, and the shut-ins crawling out of their skin; for those whose struggle to define and redefine a concept of home for themselves is continual.