Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2022

Its flashes are flashes of fire

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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.

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.

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.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    33 minutes
  • Language
    French, with English subtitles
  • Country
    Belgium
  • Premiere
    Seattle Premiere
  • Director
    André Goldberg
  • Producer
    André Goldberg
  • Cast
    Melissa Diarra
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