Sat Mar 30
10.00am
10.00am
Northwest Micropress Fair 2019 – Cadence Video Poetry Showcase
event
April 4 at 7pm
Familiar Cadence
Showcase curated by local publishers and arts organization partners Interbay Cinema Society, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Mount Analogue, Poetry Northwest, Pongo Publishing, and Seattle City of Literature.
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April 11 at 7pm
Full Cadence
Selection of video poetry from the Cadence open call for entries in four categories: Adaptations/Ekphrasis, Collaboration, Video by Poets, and Poetry by Video Artists. Judges within each of these categories will select a winning work that will be featured again at the closing screening.
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April 18 at 7pm
Refrain Cadence
Packages from fellow festivals around the world featuring a selection of non-English language works. Showcase will include curated picks from:
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April 25 at 7pm
Characteristic Cadence
Showcase of the new video poetry generated by the festival’s many programs! The screening features the outcomes of both the youth and adult video poetry workshops, the work created by Catherine Bresner during her residency at NWFF, the award-winning films from the open call for submissions, and a video poetry discussion featuring the local Cadence partner organizations.
April 6, 11am – 5pm
The Image Speaks: Video Poetry Workshop
with Amaranth Borsuk
Ages 16+
In a supportive workshop environment, we will write, film, and experiment, conceptualizing and developing video poems that may stretch the bounds of the genre.
April 13, 11am – 4pm
Making Video Poetry Workshop
with Catherine Bresner
Ages 13–18
Fun, explorative, and experimental, this workshop will help students understand the many ways poetry can be experienced off the page to collaboratively create a video poem.
Video poems will be eligible for an award within their submission category:
Adaptations/Ekphrasis
Judged by Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy is the former film critic of The Oregonian and KGW-TV. His writing has appeared in Sight and Sound, Film Comment, American Film, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and The Black Rock Beacon. He is the author of nine books, including the upcoming The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Art, Love, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont, and the bestsellers Rat Pack Confidential and Paul Newman: A Life. He jumps and claps and sings for victory in Portland, Oregon.
Collaboration
Judged by John Bresland
John Bresland works in film, radio and print. His work has been installed at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, collected in Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time as well as The Fourth Genre, an anthology of contemporary creative nonfiction. His most recent video work, “Touch,” coauthored with James J. Hodge and C.A. Davis, was selected by Sight & Sound magazine as one of the best video essays of 2018. He teaches creative writing and media arts at Northwestern University.
Video by Poets
Judged by Sarah Minor
Sarah Minor is a writer and visual artist and the video editor at TriQuarterly Review. Her visual essays appear recently in places like Ninth Letter, Mid-American Review and Diagram, and were selected for the 2019 Barthelme Prize in Short Prose. She teaches as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Poetry by Video Artists
Judged by Claudia Castro Luna
Claudia Castro Luna is Washington State Poet Laureate. She served as Seattle’s Civic Poet, from 2015-2017 and is the author of the Pushcart nominated and Killing Marías (Two Sylvias Press) also shortlisted for WA State 2018 Book Award in poetry and This City, (Floating Bridge Press). She is also the creator of the acclaimed Seattle Poetic Grid. Castro Luna is a Hedgebrook and VONA alumna, a 2014 Jack Straw fellow, the recipient of individual artist grants from King County 4Culture and Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture.
NWFF’s call for video poetry submissions is now closed. Thank you to all who submitted!
We are now reviewing works no longer than 5 minutes that fit within the following categories of video poetry for inclusion in the April 11, 2019 screening of Cadence Video Poetry Festival:
Please direct questions regarding 2020 submissions to NWFF Artistic Director Rana San at rana@nwfilmforum.org. Cadence Video Poetry Festival proudly accepts entries via FilmFreeway.