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Image Credit: POEM OF POEM TITLES FOR “DAYS OF THE WEEK” (still), 2024; courtesy of Cadence Video Poetry, poem by Dao Strom

Someone You Once Saw in a Dream is a oneiric feminist surrealist film that acts as a poetic metaphor for the futility of feminine beauty standards, while the presence of lurking men permeates the film’s quaint athletics.

(Eyrún Úa, Iceland, 2023, 3 min, in English with hardcoded English text)

Dormant thoughts always remember there is a surface to return to as a body rattles between the points of somewheres. A recollage and overlay of recollection because at worst, a mind can always wander on a bus, on a train, a ferry…

Generated during the 2024 Cadence Artist Residency.

(Ariana Simpson, United States, 2024, 5 min, in English with hardcoded English captions)

The world of pigeons. Although the voice we hear is human, the text read was written by the pigeons themselves, pecking bread on a computer keyboard. This is not a work about pigeons but with pigeons. The sounds, the sequences of consonants, the punctuations, the repetitions, creating a dialect of pigeons, a language. Opening new imaginations to all other living beings is necessary for decentering the human world.

(Anna Mancuso, Belgium, 2023, 4 min, in English)

A reflective journey of the forest and of the mind, carving a path between the physical world and the internal world. This piece was filmed on super 8mm through various forests of California and New Mexico.

(Alison Johnson, United States, 2023, 5 min, in English)

In an exercise in structured formal repetition, a portrait, a recorded dialogue, and the first movement of Giovanni Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater” become a meditation on maternity and divorce.

(Director/Poet: Marina Sagona, United States, 2021, 5 min, in Italian, with hardcoded English text)

Nomadic and random observations are lost in light, forgetfulness, love, and the stars. The film suggests a temper from the place that the sun and the sky occupy in our lives: a passion dissipated by walking, collecting, and picking up the remains of the world’s details.

(Cristobal Bianchi, United States, 2024, 5 min, in Spanish with English subtitles)

In Between City imitates a poetic wandering across time and place accentuating the footprints of vanished Communist and Jewish worlds in Central European cities made entirely out of carved stamps.

US Premiere

(Ilya Kreines, Czech Republic, 2023, 9 min, nonverbal)

A collaborative video poem by participants in the festival workshop, Risograph Animated Poetry Workshop with Zine Hug, set to Dao Strom’s poem “POEM OF POEM TITLES FOR ‘DAYS OF THE WEEK’”. This poem was originally published in Instrument with Traveler’s Ode as a collaborative print book publication + cassette album release of Fonograf Editions and Antiquated Future Records (2020).

(directors: Liv Glascock, Neely Goniodsky, jade hawk, Alexander Kirshenbaum, Bea Mariano, Margot Murvihill, Natalee Ryan, Rana San, Hana Shiozaki, Ariana Simpson, Paul Siple, Chelsea-Werner-Jatzke, poet: Dao Strom, US, 2024, 3 min, in English with English subtitles)

An erasure poetry film about ending one’s life in a country flooded with natural beauty but drought-ridden when it comes to services for the mentally ill. Inspired by a county north of the Golden Gate Bridge labeled “paradise on earth,” it draws attention to the mosaic of invisible struggles that plague its people and has left them paralyzed in their efforts to find a rainbow in the fog.

(Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş, Jade Lien, Irene Lin, United States, 2024, 5 min, in English with hardcoded English text)

Driven by a poem and different types of light, we wonder: What can you see and what can you not see? Like the sun that is too bright to look into, while her reflection on the water can be soft. A light source and its reflection are the same but different.

(Jules van Hulst, Netherlands, 2024, 7 min, hardcoded English text)

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? Maybe not much, but it could make for an interesting film obituary. The text is based on an old English nursery rhyme. The image is taken from Soviet and Russian film footage.

(Misha Ketov, Russian Federation, 2024, 4 min)

An animated dream of displacement and apocalypse.

(directors: E.T. Russian & Edward Mast, poet: Edward Mast, US, 2023, 7 min, in English with English captions)

Experiments in Cinema is an annual international festival celebrating current trends and history of international cinematic experimentation. Experiments in Cinema is a non-competitive festival produced by Basement Films and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 2025 will be Experiments in Cinema’s 20th anniversary! 20 years in the saddle.

The festival will take place at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque, NM April 16-20, 2025. The programs will be also available to watch free of charge April 28 – May 10, 2025 on their website.

Cadence Video Poetry Festival is a series of screenings, workshops, and discussions on the genre of video poetry during National Poetry Month.

Cadence approaches video poetry as a literary genre presented as visual media that makes new meaning from the combination of text and moving image. Featuring screenings, an artist residency, generative workshops for youth and adults, artist gatherings, and a virtual poetry bookshelf, Cadence fosters critical and creative growth around the medium of video poetry.