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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)
Click here for in-person tickets to this program: Apr. 26 at 7:00pm
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Cadence 2025 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: The Melting, dir. Lananh Chu
Showcase title credit: whereverever, dir. Alysha Seriani, Erika Mitsuhashi & Alexa Solveig Mardon
Mercy weaves poetry and imagery with gesture, movement, and voice into an intricate meditation on Black womanhood. The film voices issues of race, place, and identity, and dives into the double-voiced discourses of a particular Black literary tradition concerning the complication of the slave learning their captor’s language. “The hands of the dancers are the hands of my mother and sister, the hands of our grandmother, the hands of their mothers.” — Cornelius Eady
- Year2025
- Runtime16 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- PremiereUS Premiere
- DirectorDIR. Philip Szporer // POEM Cornelius Eady
- ProducerMarlene Millar, Philip Szporer
- CastAngélique Willkie, Amara Barner
- CinematographerPablo Córdoba Salcido
- ComposerDevon Bate
- Sound DesignDevon Bate
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)
Click here for in-person tickets to this program: Apr. 26 at 7:00pm
Virtual tickets are pay-what-you-can, $5–25. Click "Unlock Now" above to select the price you are most comfortable with.
Cadence 2025 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: The Melting, dir. Lananh Chu
Showcase title credit: whereverever, dir. Alysha Seriani, Erika Mitsuhashi & Alexa Solveig Mardon
Mercy weaves poetry and imagery with gesture, movement, and voice into an intricate meditation on Black womanhood. The film voices issues of race, place, and identity, and dives into the double-voiced discourses of a particular Black literary tradition concerning the complication of the slave learning their captor’s language. “The hands of the dancers are the hands of my mother and sister, the hands of our grandmother, the hands of their mothers.” — Cornelius Eady
- Year2025
- Runtime16 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- PremiereUS Premiere
- DirectorDIR. Philip Szporer // POEM Cornelius Eady
- ProducerMarlene Millar, Philip Szporer
- CastAngélique Willkie, Amara Barner
- CinematographerPablo Córdoba Salcido
- ComposerDevon Bate
- Sound DesignDevon Bate