Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2025

we effervesce minutely

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Available April 25, 2025 7:01 AM UTC
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12 films in package
In this short life
Can the reuse of home video archives transcend mere nostalgia?
The Snail Disco Diner
A diner managed by snails is frequented by customers who use time as currency.
Waves
A young Black man grapples with his toxic cycle, his day unfolding through a visual poemctoward self-awareness and change.
The Shadows of Paper Trees
Time-collapsed images of nature collide with reverie-soaked tableaus interpreting verses from “Panjereh” ("Window") by Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad.
Nest Egg
Driven to gain control over her body and reproductive rights, an artist documents her procedure of human oocyte cryopreservation (freezing eggs).
Third space
Finding your location.
YES! (JAH!)
The corners, slopes, dead ends, and curves nudge us to ponder the dilemmas of the achievement society. Should we push ourselves into a box or shall we dare to be wrong?
our ob or os
if every bone had not been sucked hollow, / the meat held for ransom. the yearling / still struggling to walk, its hock bent backwards. / its tongue meant to be peeled after boiling —
Insurance Man 1946
Poet Sean Hill performs his poem "Insurance Man 1946" while wandering a rural Montana town's general store.
legs
Three artists work in stride to translate, in sound and motion, the heart of a poem. They collaborate with life’s unexpecteds—snapped clotheslines, drained swimming pools, terminal diagnoses—and learn what falls away is not necessarily gone.
smirnov fedot (смирнов федот)
The ordinary life of an ordinary person condensed into seven days and two quatrains. What happens if you go with the flow until the very end?
Espectro
Antarctica, 1953. Like a espectro (specter) in my mind, I search for you, you search for me. I dream of you and you dream of me.
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Life cycles leave a snail trail across the screen. These video poems navigate the vast expanse of time with subtle, personal narratives that collapse the space between art and home, womb and grave, career and honey bucket. Through mantras, photographs, and windows the works in this showcase offer a glimpse into eternity while embracing the temporary.


(61 min TRT)


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Header photo credit: The Shadows of Paper Trees, dir. Aida Daneshvar & Christopher Dreisbach

Showcase title credit: legs, dir. Christine Fellows, Jennifer Still & Chantel Mierau

A diner managed by snails is frequented by customers who use time as currency.

  • Year
    2025
  • Runtime
    2 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    World Premiere
  • Subtitle Language
    with hardcoded English text
  • Director
    Alec Mazzoli, Jake Weissblatt
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