Infinity | Its flashes are flashes of fire | Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2022

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The in-person screening of this program will take place on Apr. 24 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!

This showcase stares mortality in the eye and offers a poem as effigy to life, death, and love. A contemporary investigation into sacred love kindles the intensity spread across these works. From a fantastical color-saturated portrait of the legendary poet Lorca to an uncredited photograph of domestic life in 1930s Budapest, these video poems are lessons in keeping the flame alive across cultures and time.

I have found the sea,

An ocean limitless.

I have opened a treasury unending,

Its jewels blaze with the luster of a thousand thousand suns,

And they blaze here, in my soul.

Of a sudden,

Without any effort of mine own,

I have heard the eternal Secret,

I have learned to know God.

Here in my life hath blossomed

The flower of perfect union.

Text: Sant Tukaram 17th century (English version by John S. Hoyland; original language Marathi)

Voice: Samaneri Jayasāra

Photographer: Unknown (Budapest, c. 1930)

Video: Milan Zulic December, 2021

Year
2021
Runtime
6 minutes
Language
English, with no subtitles or captions
Country
Switzerland
Premiere
US Premiere

Director
Milan Zulic

6 films in package

Climbing Eros

"Climbing Eros" is a film about crossing distance and returning to earth.

Closed captions available

IM/MORTAL

A video poem reflecting on movement, travel, lineage, mortality, and immortality.

Memento

This elegaic, dramatic fantasy is dedicated to the memory of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. The central themes of love and death attend a suite of symbolic allusions to Lorca's oeuvre.

Vitality

An awakening through dance as a response to fear, loss, and change. A reclaiming of experiences, heart shattering to life giving, that may just be the elixir for a radical transformation towards vitality.

Infinity

I have found the sea, an ocean limitless. I have opened a treasury unending; its jewels blaze with the luster of a thousand thousand suns, and they blaze here, in my soul. (Sant Tukaram)

The Song of Songs (Le Cantique des Cantiques)

The Beloved yearns for her Beloved. Is he a valiant of King Solomon, or a shepherd putting his flock out to pasture? Is she one of the king's concubines, or a simple shepherdess? "The Song of Songs" is a 3000-year-old biblical poem from one of the Books of the Old Testament.