Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2023

The great entanglement

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15 films in package
ASYMMETRICAL FUTURE (AVENIR ASYMÉTRIQUE)
A man and a woman. A first contact after a long break up.
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Impetus
This film is a reflective audiovisual collage of images and sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet.
A Reading From the Book of Regenesis
The first of a series of short films from The Fire Cycle — an interdisciplinary work comprising poems, music, film, and visual art.
A Spark Catches
Excerpts from Jade Lascelles's book The Inevitable pair with images of climate crisis and individual isolation to outline certain dichotomies of serenity and destruction, passion and violence, that manifest in both nature and desire.
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The moon appears (La luna asoma)
Liquid, digital animation lends another dimension to Federico García Lorca's already mysterious and multidimensional poem "La luna asoma (The moon appears)."
There are Still Owls, There is Still Night
A poetic exploration of temporal cognitive effects of climate change--what becomes visible as things disappear.
Constant
A love poem using the Voyager Space mission as metaphor.
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ANTIQUE LANDS
As an experiment in re-expressing the past with tools from the future, this short film uses AI to read Percy percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" and generate new photographs from the words of the verses.
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The Facts
A love poem disguised as a video poem disguised as a recitation of extraneous facts.
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Kiss Me
A poetic and immersive voyage into the growing world of plants to rediscover love and explore how to re-entangle ourselves with nature's sentience and beauty.
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Peace Piece
Responding to a curated cocktail of positive, harmonious keywords ("pacifism," "empathy," "sisterhood," etc.), Emily Dickinson's phrase "I many times thought Peace had come," and assorted other artistic input, this film is entirely co-created with artificial intelligence.
Poems for an Aeolian Harp or Paintings for the wind
A collaborative video poem by participants in the festival workshop, Animated Poetry with Neely Goniodsky, set to Seattle Civic Poet Shin Yu Pai’s poem "Poems for an Aeolian Harp or Paintings for the wind". These poems were originally published in Virga (Empty Bowl, 2021).
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"reverence"
A poetic kaleidoscopic meditation on the irrepressible awe of being.
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BECAUSE YOU SPEAK OF FUR
In this adaptation of Georg Leß's "Anderkatt (The Haircut)," two women converse through an uncanny amalgam of images and soundscapes. One is on an expedition; the other follows the expedition's progress from afar.
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refrigerator hum
Experiments in reanimating intergenerational, collective memory.
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A poetics of enmeshment told via climate crises, love letters, and AI interventions confronts the intertwining of humans, technology, and emotion. This showcase sets neural networks alight; dissonant exchanges open pathways to awe and creative agency.

(42 min TRT)

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** Co-presented with Alliance Française de Seattle, American Romanian Cultural Society, Hugo House, Interbay Cinema Society, Seattle Asian American Film Festival, Seattle City of Literature, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program at the University of Washington, Taiwanese Association of Greater Seattle, and The 3rd Thing **

Can a computer read poetry? Can it visualize the words? This experimental use of AI features a reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1818 sonnet "Ozymandias" by a voice that is not human, with new images from a photographer who died in Egypt 170 years ago. It's history that never happened, imagined by the tools of the future.

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    3 minutes
  • Language
    English, with English intertitles and hardcoded text
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    US Premiere
  • Note
    Poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Director
    Zack McCune
  • Music
    Larisa Berger McCune
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