Enter the dream state. Shared dreams, lucid dreams, unattainable dreams, waking dreams. These video poems are portals into ourselves and others where new associations and unexpected connections are crafted. We are suspended in the gravity of these pieces, our feet never quite touching solid ground as our emotional core soars. Using erasure, installation, tableaux, anthropomorphism, and live music, this showcase traverses the conscious, unconscious, and subconscious to imagine the multitude of pathways through reality. What will we wake up to?
(72 min TRT)
Click here for in-person tickets to this program: Apr. 19 at 7:30pm
Virtual tickets are pay-what-you-can, $5–25. Click "Unlock Now" above to select the price you are most comfortable with.
Cadence 2024 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.
Header photo credit: Birdie’s dream, dir. melisa yağmur saydı
Showcase title credit: Your Dream is my Dream, dir. Marina Sagona
We Are Not Familiar With a Generation That Has No Understanding of Sadness constructs a narrative around the artists’ fundamental research on the mimeograph. By using significant political texts and transcripts from history as a reference point, against this historical background, they reflect upon the contemporary situation in Türkiye. In affinity with previous generations, who are saddened by the perished dreams and ideals, they search for agency under despotism—attempting to negotiate their elusive position between two extremes of utopian escapism and revolutionary struggle as recourse to estrangement.
- Year2018
- Runtime8 minutes
- LanguageTurkish
- CountryTurkey
- PremiereUS Premiere
- Subtitle Languagewith hardcoded English subtitles and hardcoded English text
- DirectorFatma Belkıs, İz Öztat, Nihan Somay, Özgür Atlagan
Enter the dream state. Shared dreams, lucid dreams, unattainable dreams, waking dreams. These video poems are portals into ourselves and others where new associations and unexpected connections are crafted. We are suspended in the gravity of these pieces, our feet never quite touching solid ground as our emotional core soars. Using erasure, installation, tableaux, anthropomorphism, and live music, this showcase traverses the conscious, unconscious, and subconscious to imagine the multitude of pathways through reality. What will we wake up to?
(72 min TRT)
Click here for in-person tickets to this program: Apr. 19 at 7:30pm
Virtual tickets are pay-what-you-can, $5–25. Click "Unlock Now" above to select the price you are most comfortable with.
Cadence 2024 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.
Header photo credit: Birdie’s dream, dir. melisa yağmur saydı
Showcase title credit: Your Dream is my Dream, dir. Marina Sagona
We Are Not Familiar With a Generation That Has No Understanding of Sadness constructs a narrative around the artists’ fundamental research on the mimeograph. By using significant political texts and transcripts from history as a reference point, against this historical background, they reflect upon the contemporary situation in Türkiye. In affinity with previous generations, who are saddened by the perished dreams and ideals, they search for agency under despotism—attempting to negotiate their elusive position between two extremes of utopian escapism and revolutionary struggle as recourse to estrangement.
- Year2018
- Runtime8 minutes
- LanguageTurkish
- CountryTurkey
- PremiereUS Premiere
- Subtitle Languagewith hardcoded English subtitles and hardcoded English text
- DirectorFatma Belkıs, İz Öztat, Nihan Somay, Özgür Atlagan