Cadence 2024 – We are looking for our shape [Hybrid]
Watch online: Apr. 19–28, 2024
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 NWFF Member
Pay what you can, $5-25
Pay what you can, $55-85
For NWFF members, $40
All Festival Passes are HYBRID, granting access to both virtual and in-person viewing! Non-member passes are priced on a sliding scale; please pay what you can to support our work. Passes exclude workshops and satellite screenings, please register separately.
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The majority of seats in our main cinema are 21″ wide from armrest to armrest; some seats are 19″ wide. We are working on creating the option of removable armrests!
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About the program:
(73 min TRT)
Simultaneously the products of our lineage, environment, and interactions, we miraculously retain our individual edges. How can we integrate all our identities as essential to the whole? How does miming past generations feed our future selves? How will we transcend fantasies to build a castle of our own? Through a translator, an immigrant, a tourist, a voicemail, a fairytale, and others, these video poems ask: how, and how often, do we (re)make ourselves?
Header photo & showcase title credit: Les corps aqueux, dir. Filémon Brault-Archambeault
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Films in this program:
Chinatown Diptych
West Coast premiere!
American poet Jenny Xie performs her poem “Chinatown Diptych” while roaming the scenes and textures of New York City’s Chinatown.
(director: Jean Coleman, poet: Jenny Xie, US, 2021, 3 min, in English with no subtitles or captions)
leafmold
World premiere!
Spun from chambered secrets and texts read under the full moon, this essay film / experimental documentary / video poem about gender decay explores contradictions of masculinity and the feminine threshold.
(Benja Thompson, US, 2024, 7 min, in English with English subtitles and hardcoded English text)
Wolf Lake - Bachinsky version
In a dramatized narrative written and told by Canadian poet Elizabeth Bachinsky, a young woman speaks of her ordeal at Wolf Lake. The Coast Mountains of British Columbia make a lush backdrop to her harrowing story of violence and betrayal. Wolf Lake is from Elizabeth Bachinsky’s excellent collection Home of Sudden Service, Nightwood Editions, 2006.
(director: Michael V. Smith, poet: Elizabeth Bachinsky, Canada, 2006, 5 min, in English with English captions)
A house, a body, a wildish thing
World premiere!
A house, a body, a wildish thing serves as an invitation to participate in sensory recollection and investigation of duality in the human experience, by leaning into the curious and whimsical.
Generated during the 2024 Cadence Artist Residency.
(Livia Glascock, United States, 2024, 6 min, in English with animated English text and captions)
Key
World premiere!
Seven year old Eve runs away with the bejeweled key to the King’s castle, only to get lost – but with the help of a strange guiding force, she finds that she can build a castle of her own.
(James E. Kenward, United Kingdom & Germany, 2023, 7 min, in English with English captions)
The river (Ріка)
US premiere!
A lyrical reflection by a Ukrainian woman who finds herself on the riverbank and remembers her home and her family on the other side. The river is about realizing oneself in a new space, feeling the spirit of ancestors, and rethinking the experience of the ongoing war.
(director: Svitlana Rudiuk, poet: Olena Pashuk (Kytsan), Ukraine, 2023, 2 min, in Ukrainian with hardcoded English subtitles)
Desert Poems
World premiere!
Desert Poems is a film built around a poem by Sami Miranda that speaks to objects left in the desert by migrants crossing into the US.
(directors: Sami Miranda & Ellie Walton, poet: Sami Miranda, US, 2024, 2 min, in English with hardcoded English subtitles)
Les corps aqueux
US premiere!
CW: Nudity
Les corps aqueux is an experimental film that explores gender identity outside the binary. By constructing a theatrical space comprised of designed sets, staged radio interviews, found footage vignettes, and overlays, it explores the relationship between the body and the self. Inside that space, uncertainty is finally allowed to exist.
(Filémon Brault-Archambeault, Canada, 2023, 5 min, in English & French with English subtitles)
💙 MICHAEL V. SMITH Honorable Mention 💙
Postcard home from English Bay - Chainsmoking Seagulls
Just a normal day at English Bay.
(Zak Zastera, Canada, 2023, 2 min, in English with hardcoded English text)
How to Make an ASMR Dumpling
This film invites immigrants with Asian heritage to join an immersive ASMR cooking show in which participants make dumplings together. It is part of an ongoing project called “From Scratch: Tasting the Tenderness in Food Production,” whose aim is to bring awareness to the often diminished labor of immigrants, as well as provide space for healing from the trauma of the global pandemic.
(Yixuan Pan, US, 2023, 3 min, in English with English intertitles)
💙 CONCEPTUAL BAR SUR Honorable Mention 💙
Identity Portraits
Northwest premiere!
Three short portrait films that weave together spoken word and visual form to reflect the identity, joy, and power of individuals from the transgender and nonbinary community.
(director: Sasha Marie Speer, poets: Jaden Smith, Nancy Azcona & Andy Sánchez, US, 2023, 7 min, in English & Spanish with hardcoded English subtitles)
Her Plot of Blue Sky
West Coast Premiere!
Centering a group of women who reside in a care home in a small market town of Sefrou, Morocco, Her Plot of Blue Sky is a record of one of the days the women were seen using the cameras. Woven into their narratives is Rachida Madani’s poem, “Tales of a Severed Head.”
(director: Kamila Kuc, poets: Kamila Kuc, Rachida Madani & Fatima Ezerkawi, United Kingdom, 2022, 23 min, in English & Arabic with hardcoded English subtitles)
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