Good Symptom – a serial anthology of time-based disturbances – troubles the boundaries between cinema and literature. At this special showcase screening, get a sneak peek at a selection of the short films featured in this video anthology produced by independent, interdisciplinary press The 3rd Thing. These remarkable pieces push the language and form of poetry, essay, correspondence, autobiography, manifesto, thought piece and hybrid literary work off the page and onto the screen. To find out more and subscribe to the whole 12-month series, visit The 3rd Thing.
(~41 min TRT)
Click here for in-person tickets to this program: Apr. 29 & 30 at 4pm
Both virtual and in-person tickets for this program are pay-what-you-can, $5–25. For virtual viewing, click "Unlock Now" above to select the price you are most comfortable with.
Cadence 2023 will be held both virtually and in-person. Festival Passes are HYBRID, granting access to both virtual and in-person viewing, and are available here.
** Co-presented with Interbay Cinema Society, Seattle Arab Film Festival, and The 3rd Thing **
Quenton Baker’s we pilot the blood considers the position of blackness and the ongoing afterlife of slavery in this cinematic adaptation of their poem by the same title, crafted from redacted U.S. Senate documents detailing the 1841 revolt of enslaved people aboard the brig Creole. “Quenton Baker’s redactions are Black redactions,” writes scholar Christina Sharpe, “to make documents…speak something that they were never meant to reveal.” Those revelations are intercut in a meditative visual mix with the sea—alive and moving, closeup and tender—and paired with Baker’s transporting vocalization—at once, urgent, slow, visceral, and prophetic. A world premiere in Good Symptom.
- Year2023
- Runtime6 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, with hardcoded English text
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorQuenton Baker
Good Symptom – a serial anthology of time-based disturbances – troubles the boundaries between cinema and literature. At this special showcase screening, get a sneak peek at a selection of the short films featured in this video anthology produced by independent, interdisciplinary press The 3rd Thing. These remarkable pieces push the language and form of poetry, essay, correspondence, autobiography, manifesto, thought piece and hybrid literary work off the page and onto the screen. To find out more and subscribe to the whole 12-month series, visit The 3rd Thing.
(~41 min TRT)
Click here for in-person tickets to this program: Apr. 29 & 30 at 4pm
Both virtual and in-person tickets for this program are pay-what-you-can, $5–25. For virtual viewing, click "Unlock Now" above to select the price you are most comfortable with.
Cadence 2023 will be held both virtually and in-person. Festival Passes are HYBRID, granting access to both virtual and in-person viewing, and are available here.
** Co-presented with Interbay Cinema Society, Seattle Arab Film Festival, and The 3rd Thing **
Quenton Baker’s we pilot the blood considers the position of blackness and the ongoing afterlife of slavery in this cinematic adaptation of their poem by the same title, crafted from redacted U.S. Senate documents detailing the 1841 revolt of enslaved people aboard the brig Creole. “Quenton Baker’s redactions are Black redactions,” writes scholar Christina Sharpe, “to make documents…speak something that they were never meant to reveal.” Those revelations are intercut in a meditative visual mix with the sea—alive and moving, closeup and tender—and paired with Baker’s transporting vocalization—at once, urgent, slow, visceral, and prophetic. A world premiere in Good Symptom.
- Year2023
- Runtime6 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, with hardcoded English text
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorQuenton Baker