There's a certain Slant of light | What is hidden needs to be seen

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The in-person screening of this program will take place on Apr. 22 at 7pm at Northwest Film Forum.

Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2022 will be held both virtually and in-person. VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID Festival Passes are available here!

Taking its title from a poem written in morse code and light, this showcase offers meditations on how we present ourselves—where we come from, who we call family, how we communicate. Some works play with a visual language of omission and distortion while others lay bare their lineage and histories, both approaches ask for understanding and recognition. Using persona, art practice, and movement, these works reveal a poetry of visibility.

Leaves, shadows, and landscape reveal the words of Emily Dickinson's poem, "There's a certain Slant of light," accompanied by the notes of Schoenberg and sounds of a winter garden.

There's a certain Slant of light,

Winter Afternoons –

That oppresses, like the Heft

Of Cathedral Tunes –

Heavenly Hurt, it gives us –

We can find no scar,

But internal difference –

Where the Meanings, are –

None may teach it – Any –

'Tis the seal Despair –

An imperial affliction

Sent us of the Air –

When it comes, the Landscape listens –

Shadows – hold their breath –

When it goes, 'tis like the Distance

On the look of Death –

Year
2022
Runtime
5 minutes
Language
English, with no subtitles or captions
Country
United States
Premiere
World Premiere
Note
Poet: Emily Dickinson

Director
Susan McCann

13 films in package

Gold Token

An experimental musical poem that explores Black ancestry, culture, and cyclical growing pains.

Surrealist poem

"Surrealist poem" by four year-old Oiva Kova, written the same spring that his beloved grandfather passed away, in a language he invented himself.

untitled ( performance )

A digital poem juxtaposed with a 3D scan. The black chamber is the first one, after the white noise. The chamber, silent, just fine. I see the bridge, the mirrored sphere, the transparent canvas, the interactive draw. Not opaque, projected, reflected, the prism form.

Heron 1954–2002

A visual eulogy that materializes the process of overdue bereavement.

Unsaid

A visual adaptation of poems from the book Words In My Head, which explore emotions surrounding, gender, sexual orientation, blackness, and feminism through the eye of a gay director from the homophobic African country of Nigeria.

corps minéral

"corps minéral" proposes an introspective experience inspired by geological transformations and layers of memory, whether they are contained in earth and rocks, or in our cells.

BINDI

An exploration of the artist's connection to the Bindi as an Indian American woman, calling out Western society's rejection of minority cultural expression yet acceptance of its fetishization in pop culture—appropriation under the guise of appreciation.

Jangan Lupa (do not forget)

From its source, an instructional pamphlet given to Indonesians by the Dutch to effectuate their integration, "Jangan Lupa" ("do not forget") develops into a tribute to the search for real, non-performative belonging.

There's a certain Slant of light

Leaves, shadows, and landscape reveal the words of Emily Dickinson's poem, "There's a certain Slant of light," accompanied by the notes of Schoenberg and sounds of a winter garden.

Frozen Cry

"Frozen Cry" is a tear of freezing water that overflows, dedicated to Colombian poet Lilián Pallares, her niece Mia Gill, and Minnie the cat.

UNUSUAL MOMENT (INSTANT INHABITUEL)

A man and a woman. A meeting and the complex feelings that flow from it.

Close Spaces

In lieu of a public health crisis that encouraged isolation and distance, Close Spaces visually interprets African American vernacular English (AAVE) to highlight and exalt the intimate and confined spaces that drive the genuine, everyday connections that are necessary for humanity.

Closed captions available

Islet

An ephemeral in-sea event where the artist transmits through light signals based on International Morse Code his message what is hidden needs to be seen.

The in-person screening of this program will take place on Apr. 22 at 7pm at Northwest Film Forum.

Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2022 will be held both virtually and in-person. VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID Festival Passes are available here!

Leaves, shadows, and landscape reveal the words of Emily Dickinson's poem, "There's a certain Slant of light," accompanied by the notes of Schoenberg and sounds of a winter garden.

There's a certain Slant of light,

Winter Afternoons –

That oppresses, like the Heft

Of Cathedral Tunes –

Heavenly Hurt, it gives us –

We can find no scar,

But internal difference –

Where the Meanings, are –

None may teach it – Any –

'Tis the seal Despair –

An imperial affliction

Sent us of the Air –

When it comes, the Landscape listens –

Shadows – hold their breath –

When it goes, 'tis like the Distance

On the look of Death –

Year
2022
Runtime
5 minutes
Language
English, with no subtitles or captions
Country
United States
Premiere
World Premiere
Note
Poet: Emily Dickinson

Director
Susan McCann