land.scape notes on exile | grounding into the space | Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2025

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In the face of displacement, exile, conformity, and crisis, these video poems approach existence as resistance. Creating belonging in new places, taking up space through performance art, examining the material reality of tragedy, and communing with nature to explore internal worlds—the works in this showcase offer sure footing and tender steps forward as the global landscape shifts beneath our feet.

(73 min TRT)

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Header photo credit: The Melting, dir. Lananh Chu

Showcase title credit: whereverever, dir. Alysha Seriani, Erika Mitsuhashi & Alexa Solveig Mardon

A poetic journey of rediscovery and return. Routing us through shifting landscapes and waterways, the narrative reflections of a seeker are mystically guided by Oshun, the venerated orisha of water and destiny.

Year
2025
Runtime
5 minutes
Language
English
Country
United States
Premiere
World Premiere
Subtitle Language
with hardcoded English text

Director
Berette S Macaulay
Producer
Berette S Macaulay
Cast
Berette S Macaulay, Francheska Alcantara
Cinematographer
Berette S Macaulay, William Richards, Dale P Woodard, Jordan Isaacs

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CAConrad tapes the text of their shaped poem "GOLDEN IN THE MORNING CRANE OUR NECKS" to windows and walls around Manhattan.

American Myth - To Walla Walla

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The Melting

Commemorating the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in the U.K. in 2019, "The Melting" addresses the unbearable catastrophe of migration, surveillance technologies, and thermal violence.

Jesus

Envision Jesus as an immigrant crossing from Mexico into the US.

whereverever

A docu-poem that intertwines visits with relatives, folk and contemporary dancing, and playful noticings of rupture with a focus on gesture, movement, and impulse.

land.scape notes on exile

Mercy

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School Kills Creativity

A critical response to a crushing education system that devalues art education and creative thinking.

The Forest for the Trees

A reflective journey through the forest and the mind, carving a path between the physical and internal world with poetry as the guide.

they are here now

A contemporary telling of an ancestral story about an encounter with an unidentified light.