The Light That Burns Us | When we bite down | Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2024

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Poetry has a history of getting people in trouble. Throughout time, poetry has been suppressed and poets persecuted for not writing the party line. This showcase gives voice to the outcasts and the cast out, the identity-torn seeking belonging, and the otherwise outlawed. By questioning the status quo and our place within it, these video poems reveal disruptive truths. To all poets who persist, who write rebellion, who reject silence and speak out—it can be dangerous, but we are many and poetry provides us refuge.

(76 min TRT)

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Header photo credit: The Light That Burns Us, dir. Jazra Khaleed, Silvia Tsompanaki

Showcase title credit: Eve, poet Meghan Plunkett, animator Miranda Javid

“GREECE, your light caught us by your E and burned us all the way to your G.” A poetry film against nationalism and the state of emergency in Greece.

🏆 Winner of the SOCIAL JUSTICE AWARD and EXCELLENCE IN POETIC CRITIQUE AWARD at Cadence 2024! 🏆

Year
2023
Runtime
7 minutes
Language
English
Country
Greece
Premiere
World Premiere
Subtitle Language
with hardcoded English text

Director
DIR. Jazra Khaleed & Silvia Tsompanaki // POEM Jazra Khaleed

10 films in package

Midnight Whispers

In a world where poetry is an illegal substance, a dealer roams around an estate receiving cash in exchange for whispering lines of illicit verse into her customers' ears.

Closed captions available

Eve

An animated poetic retelling of Adam & Eve's story.

Exiles (Exils)

"Exiles" is a conversation with oneself when the ground slips away beneath our feet. A forced journey, when we would rather remain grounded by our roots; the refusal of an imposed destiny, out of home. A dreamlike vision of a home-island that we cling to; our asylum from chaos.

The Racist Bone

Poet and Cave Canem co-founder Cornelius Eady performs "The Racist Bone," exploring the subtle and straightforward aspects of racism through the lens of the classic B-movie.

Bubble Hat

Through the lens of an outsider estranged from urban life, "Bubble Hat" is an evocative poetry film that delves into the sense of alienation birthed from the frantic hustle of an automated, fast-paced culture.

When I Was Clandestine (Cuando Fui Clandestino)

Juan Garrido Salgado immigrated to Australia from Chile in 1990, fleeing the regime that burned his poetry, imprisoned him, and tortured him for his political activism. "My verse is born by the nights of the curfew... when I was clandestine."

Walk One Mile

Incarcerated high school students ask you to "walk one mile... just one, in my shoes."

The Light That Burns Us

“GREECE, your light caught us by your E and burned us all the way to your G.” A poetry film against nationalism and the state of emergency in Greece.

Broken Arabic

A spoken word poem about the war within the diaspora child living between two continents, unable to fully give their condolences in the language of their grief.

Ossip & Marina - the forbidden words (Ossip e Marina - entre as linhas)

The life and the verses of Ossip Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetaeva incite us to use forbidden words – words that we cannot speak in public, or even to our loved ones.

Poetry has a history of getting people in trouble. Throughout time, poetry has been suppressed and poets persecuted for not writing the party line. This showcase gives voice to the outcasts and the cast out, the identity-torn seeking belonging, and the otherwise outlawed. By questioning the status quo and our place within it, these video poems reveal disruptive truths. To all poets who persist, who write rebellion, who reject silence and speak out—it can be dangerous, but we are many and poetry provides us refuge.