Circles | my more-than-me | Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2025

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Tapping into the collective unconscious, this showcase excavates shared knowledge buried just below the surface. These films remind us that the roots of humanity and nature are intertwined. When pavement erases habitat and the evolutionary thread is lost, we can weave poetry into a home, recombine scattered lines, and dream possible futures.

(64 min TRT)

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Header photo credit: Wandering Houses (Casas Errantes), dir. Lilián Pallares & Charles Olsen

Showcase title credit: Clay Nesting Dolls (Poupées Gigognes d'argile), dir. Hélène Matte & Marco Dubé

By introducing various personal ‘antidotes’ to loneliness such as a kitchen light, the sound of a radio, or the flight of cranes, Circles contemplates the perpetual oscillation between loneliness and solace, light and dark, silence and company as something inherent to and shared by humans and nature.

Year
2023
Runtime
2 minutes
Language
English
Country
Germany
Subtitle Language
with English subtitles

Director
Christina Rupp
Sound Design
Felipe Durán

14 films in package

Circles

By introducing various personal ‘antidotes’ to loneliness such as a kitchen light, the sound of a radio, or the flight of cranes, "Circles" contemplates the perpetual oscillation between loneliness and solace, light and dark, silence and company as something inherent to and shared by humans and nature.

Wandering Houses (Casas Errantes)

Two migrant poets from Barranquilla, Colombia journey together between clothespins, mango, and waves in a Lisbon home.

The Everglades

While driving through a Miami car wash built on land that was once part of the Everglades, Campbell McGrath reads his poem on one of America's great, vanishing wild spaces.

Closed captions available

Lizard Song

A cross-genre film that darts and skitters, blending language, dance, and music. Lizard is wild and Lizard is you.

This is How We Dream: Dream of a Seed

A poetic triptych of time, memory, and dance, this film moves between timelines to embody the dream of a seed: its potential, its dormancy, its growth.

This is How We Dream: Dear Mom

Through visual metaphor and personal address, this film meditates on the intergenerational connection between the filmmaker and maternal figures—both human and planetary.

This is How We Dream: Lost and [Somewhat] Found

A Palestinian woman turns the lens toward her grandfather’s legacy, exploring how stories, land, and ancestral wisdom are passed down through generations of forced displacement.

This is How We Dream: Caring For a River

An intimate portrait of the Duwamish River becomes an act of witnessing and advocacy.

This is How We Dream: We will learn to call ourselves new names

An examination of the politics of naming, belonging, and cartography. Maps blur and names shift as the filmmaker questions colonial logics of place and identity, asking: how do we rename ourselves in a world that has already named—and claimed—so much?

This is How We Dream: A Video Archive for the Year 20XX, when the last cat dies, marking the end of a species

In a speculative gesture toward a future without beloved species, this film places playful domestic imagery of cats interacting with historical artifacts of extinct animals against the backdrop of environmental collapse.

This is How We Dream: Bloom

A lyrical and layered meditation on creation, destruction, and the desire to pass beauty forward.

New Growth: Incantations of Black Love

"New Growth" is a celebration of Black womanhood that considers Black hair as an ancient and undying form of political resistance, self-expression, and a labour of love.

Clay Nesting Dolls (Poupées Gigognes d'argile)

Articulated through sign language, "Clay Nesting Dolls" speaks to the space where mothers and daughters merge, powerful and vulnerable, like the earth.

Found Poetry. Four Verses

Four significant poems written by four authors were broken into lines and hidden in hundreds of films until they were found and restored.