This showcase is a raft in time’s glacial runoff. Watching these video poems, we are carried by a current of memory, lineage, and rebirth. Some of the works in this showcase alter linear time to revise inherited hurt or to recycle joy into new purpose. Others contain multiple realities—worlds where past trauma and future recovery exist in the tension of now, where the horrors of war share a line with clipping coupons. These pieces accept that the river of time is endless, that there are always possibilities for progress.
(65 min TRT)
Click here for in-person tickets to this program: Apr. 21 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 credit: Close Spaces, dir. Kamari Bright
Showcase title credit: Reading the Body: Recovery, dir. Danielle Ofri, Paige Fraser-Hoffman
In light of a public health crisis that encouraged isolation and distance, Close Spaces utilizes African American vernacular English (AAVE) to highlight and exalt the intimate and confined spaces that drive the genuine, everyday connections that are necessary for humanity.
- Year2023
- Runtime4 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereWorld Premiere
- Subtitle Languagewith English closed captions
- DirectorKamari Bright
- CastBritta Madison, Rubin Quarcoopome, Caitlin Clark, Aramis Hamer, Kamari Bright
This showcase is a raft in time’s glacial runoff. Watching these video poems, we are carried by a current of memory, lineage, and rebirth. Some of the works in this showcase alter linear time to revise inherited hurt or to recycle joy into new purpose. Others contain multiple realities—worlds where past trauma and future recovery exist in the tension of now, where the horrors of war share a line with clipping coupons. These pieces accept that the river of time is endless, that there are always possibilities for progress.
(65 min TRT)
Click here for in-person tickets to this program: Apr. 21 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 credit: Close Spaces, dir. Kamari Bright
Showcase title credit: Reading the Body: Recovery, dir. Danielle Ofri, Paige Fraser-Hoffman
In light of a public health crisis that encouraged isolation and distance, Close Spaces utilizes African American vernacular English (AAVE) to highlight and exalt the intimate and confined spaces that drive the genuine, everyday connections that are necessary for humanity.
- Year2023
- Runtime4 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereWorld Premiere
- Subtitle Languagewith English closed captions
- DirectorKamari Bright
- CastBritta Madison, Rubin Quarcoopome, Caitlin Clark, Aramis Hamer, Kamari Bright