Cadence 2025 – Craft Talk w/ Visiting Artists: Lilián Pallares + Charles Olsen [In-Person]
This event is free for all Saturday ticket- and pass-holders, with no RSVP required. (Haven’t gotten any tickets yet? Browse the festival schedule here!)
Poster credits for past Cadence films:
Noho Mai (Sit Here), 2020, dir. Peta-Maria Tunui, Waitahi Aniwaniwa McGee, Shania Bailey-Edmonds, Jesse-Ana Harris, Lilián Pallares, Charles Olsen; poem Peta-Maria Tunui
Llanto Congelado (Frozen Cry), 2020, dir. Charles Olsen, poem Lilián Pallares
A-Dentro (In-Side), 2023, dir. Charles Olsen, Lilián Pallares; poem Dayana Jiménez
Casas Errantes (Wandering Houses), 2025, dir. Lilián Pallares, Charles Olsen; poem Lilián Pallares, Lauren Mendinueta
About the program:
(30 min)
** Join visiting artists Lilián Pallares and Charles Olsen, whose work has been featured at Cadence over the years, for a focused craft talk between screenings. **
Two poets and a camera:
Highlighting key moments in their poetry film making, Charles and Lilián take us from early pieces based on their own poems through to collaborative pieces made with diverse communities, most recently with girls of the Our Little Roses orphanage in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
Their newest video poem Wandering Houses (Casas Errantes) will have its world premiere during a new place for these treasures at Frye Art Museum (Apr. 24, 6pm) and also screens in my more-than-me at NWFF (Apr. 26, 4pm).
Curious about their work?
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- Purchase your ticket to either my more-than-me or grounding into the space OR a festival pass; come to the talk!
- You can also purchase a ticket on the day of the screening at Northwest Film Forum (1515 12th Ave, Seattle).
- If you have purchased a Hybrid Festival Pass, we’ll look you up at Will Call by the name you purchased under.
- This program will only be available in-person.
About the Artists:
Lilián Pallares
Lilián Pallares (Colombia, 1976) In 2017 she received the XIV distinction Poetas de Otros Mundos from the International Poetry Fund and in 2020 she was presented with the award “10 colombianos” by the Colombian Embassy in Madrid for her personal and artistic trajectory. She has published the books Ciudad Sonámbula (2010), Voces Mudas (2011), Pájaro, vértigo (2014) and Bestial (2018). In 2020 alongside Charles Olsen she received an Artists Residency at Matadero Madrid on the theme of “Childhood, Play and Public Space.” Together they have run writing workshops for children and the elderly, and painting workshops in primary schools with the city council programme “Madrid, Un libro abierto.” In 2022, together with Charles Olsen, she received a fellowship to run creative poetry workshops the Our Little Roses orphanage in Honduras. With her theatre research company Afrolyrics she has created with director Daniel Aguirre her new show Bestial ‘el espíritu de Lilith’, which brings together poetry, storytelling, dance, visuals and percussion in a mystical, erotic and sensual atmosphere and an African context.
Charles Olsen
Charles Olsen (New Zealand, 1969) has lived in Spain since 2003. Artist, poet and filmmaker, his short film The dance of the brushes won second prize in the Flamenco Short Film Festival, Madrid, 2010, and his paintings have been shown in Madrid, Barcelona, Oporto, Paris, Wellington and the Saatchi Gallery, London. His latest poetry collection is La rebeldía del sol (Rebellious Sun, Olifante Ediciones de Poesía, 2022). In 2018 he was awarded the III Antonio Machado Fellowship of Segovia and Soria, and in 2017 the XIII distinction Poetas de Otros Mundos (Poets from Other Worlds) by the Fondo Poético Internacional in Spain. Alongside Lilián Pallares he runs the audiovisual production company antenablue and in 2020/21 they received a joint artists residency on the theme of “Childhood, Play and Public Space” at Matadero Madrid. Their work has been in international poetry film festivals and featured in Moving Poems, Poetry Film Live and Atticus Review. Charles has contributed essays to The Poetics of Poetry Film (Intellect Books, S. Tremlett (ed), 2021).
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