Simultaneously the products of our lineage, environment, and interactions, we miraculously retain our individual edges. How can we integrate all our identities as essential to the whole? How does miming past generations feed our future selves? How will we transcend fantasies to build a castle of our own? Through a translator, an immigrant, a tourist, a voicemail, a fairytale, and others, these video poems ask: how, and how often, do we (re)make ourselves?
(73 min TRT)
Click here for in-person tickets to this program: Apr. 20 at 4:30pm
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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 & showcase title credit: Les corps aqueux, dir. Filémon Brault-Archambeault
Fused with the poignant words of a Moroccan human rights activist Rachida Madani’s poem, "Tales of a Severed Head," Her Plot of Blue Sky is a relational glimpse into the joys and struggles of a group of Berber women in a care home in Sefrou, Morocco. While the women engage in creating visual diaries of their everyday existence, many of their experiences of abuse, alienation, loss and poverty, are captured in one particular resident’s story. Like other women in the care home, Fatima too struggles to survive in a society that, more often than not, undermines women’s existence. By taking their own images, the women reclaim their power to be themselves. The images they create - of themselves and others - are playful yet harrowing, they point to the invisibility of women, non-hetero-normative, neurodiverse, disabled and elderly people in media more generally.
- Year2022
- Runtime23 minutes
- LanguageArabic, English
- CountryUnited Kingdom
- PremiereWest Coast Premiere
- Subtitle Languagewith hardcoded English subtitles
- DirectorDIR. Kamila Kuc // POEM Kamila Kuc, Rachida Madani & Fatima Ezerkawi
- ProducerKamila Kuc, Reed O'Beirne
- CastFatima Ezerkawi
- EditorElizabeth Lowe
Simultaneously the products of our lineage, environment, and interactions, we miraculously retain our individual edges. How can we integrate all our identities as essential to the whole? How does miming past generations feed our future selves? How will we transcend fantasies to build a castle of our own? Through a translator, an immigrant, a tourist, a voicemail, a fairytale, and others, these video poems ask: how, and how often, do we (re)make ourselves?
(73 min TRT)
Click here for in-person tickets to this program: Apr. 20 at 4:30pm
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 & showcase title credit: Les corps aqueux, dir. Filémon Brault-Archambeault
Fused with the poignant words of a Moroccan human rights activist Rachida Madani’s poem, "Tales of a Severed Head," Her Plot of Blue Sky is a relational glimpse into the joys and struggles of a group of Berber women in a care home in Sefrou, Morocco. While the women engage in creating visual diaries of their everyday existence, many of their experiences of abuse, alienation, loss and poverty, are captured in one particular resident’s story. Like other women in the care home, Fatima too struggles to survive in a society that, more often than not, undermines women’s existence. By taking their own images, the women reclaim their power to be themselves. The images they create - of themselves and others - are playful yet harrowing, they point to the invisibility of women, non-hetero-normative, neurodiverse, disabled and elderly people in media more generally.
- Year2022
- Runtime23 minutes
- LanguageArabic, English
- CountryUnited Kingdom
- PremiereWest Coast Premiere
- Subtitle Languagewith hardcoded English subtitles
- DirectorDIR. Kamila Kuc // POEM Kamila Kuc, Rachida Madani & Fatima Ezerkawi
- ProducerKamila Kuc, Reed O'Beirne
- CastFatima Ezerkawi
- EditorElizabeth Lowe