Cadence 2025 – my more-than-me [Hybrid]
Watch online: April 25 – May 4, 2025
In-person tickets > ($20 General Admission / $10 Community Access)
Virtual tickets > (Pay what you can, $5 – 25)
Festival passes > (Pay what you can, $65 – $80 – $95 / 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 include the Festival Preview at Frye Art Museum on April 24.
About the program:
(64 min TRT)
Tapping into the collective unconscious, this showcase excavates shared knowledge buried just below the surface. These films remind us that the roots of humanity and nature are intertwined. When pavement erases habitat and the evolutionary thread is lost, we can weave poetry into a home, recombine scattered lines, and dream possible futures.
Header photo credit: Wandering Houses (Casas Errantes), dir. Lilián Pallares & Charles Olsen
Showcase title credit: Clay Nesting Dolls (Poupées Gigognes d’argile), dir. Hélène Matte & Marco Dubé
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Films in this program:
Circles
By introducing various personal ‘antidotes’ to loneliness such as a kitchen light, the sound of a radio, or the flight of cranes, Circles contemplates the perpetual oscillation between loneliness and solace, light and dark, silence and company as something inherent to and shared by humans and nature.
(Christina Rupp, Germany, 2023, 2 min, in English with English subtitles)
Wandering Houses (Casas Errantes)
US Premiere!
One poet visits the house of her friend, also a poet, in Lisbon. Both migrants from Barranquilla, Colombia, they journey together between clothespins, mango, and waves.
(DIR. Lilián Pallares, Charles Olsen // POEM Lilián Pallares, Lauren Mendinueta, Spain, 2025, 9 min, in Spanish with English subtitles)
The Everglades
US Premiere!
While driving through a Miami car wash built on land that was once part of the Everglades, Campbell McGrath reads his poem on one of America’s great, vanishing wild spaces.
(DIR. Eric Felipe-Barkin // POEM Campbell McGrath, US, 2024, 2 min, in English)
Lizard Song
A cross-genre film that darts and skitters, blending language, dance, and music. The impetus for this film, the poetry collection Lizard, blends aspects of contemporary womanhood with facts about various lizard species to question what it means to be a human in relation to other humans, other species, and the planet. Lizard is wild and Lizard is you.
(DIR. Jonah Belsky, ArVejon Jones, Ames Tierney, David Rosenthal, Sarah R Rosenthal // POEM Sarah R Rosenthal, US, 2024, 7 min, in English)
Reimagining Climate Futures
World Premiere!
A collaborative love letter to the future by participants in the festival workshop, Reimagining Climate Futures: Creative Practices for Social Change.
(Victoria Blumenfeld, Argot Chen, Kate Clark, Diana Fakhoury, Nancy Kessler, Kamila Kuc, Emery McCracken, Hannah Villanueva, US, 2025, 30 min, in English)
New Growth: Incantations of Black Love
World Premiere!
New Growth is a celebration of Black womanhood that considers Black hair as an ancient and undying form of political resistance, self-expression, and a labour of love.
(DIR. Timiro Mohamed, Faisa Omer // POEM Timiro Mohamed, Canada, 2021, 3 min, in English with English closed captions)
Clay Nesting Dolls (Poupées Gigognes d'argile)
Premiere status!
Articulated through sign language, Clay Nesting Dolls speaks to the space where mothers and daughters merge, powerful and vulnerable, like the earth.
(DIR. Hélène Matte, Marco Dubé // POEM Hélène Matte, Canada, 2023, 1 min, in French & Sign Language with English subtitles)
Found Poetry. Four Verses
World Premiere!
Four significant poems written by four authors were broken into lines and hidden in hundreds of films until they were found and restored.
(Dmytro Bondarchuk, Ukraine, 2025, 8 min, in English with English intertitles)
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