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7:30pm-April 19, 2024

(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?

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 English Subtitles)

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 (????)

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)

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)

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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4:30pm-Apr 20,2024

(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?

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 English Subtitles)

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 (????)

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)

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)

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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7:30pm-Apr 20,2024

(76 Min TRT)
Poetry Has A History Of Getting People In Trouble. Throughout Time, Poetry Has Been Suppressed And Poets Persecuted For Not Writing The Party Line. This Showcase Gives Voice To The Outcasts And The Cast Out, The Identity-Torn Seeking Belonging, And The Otherwise Outlawed. By Questioning The Status Quo And Our Place Within It, These Video Poems Reveal Disruptive Truths. To All Poets Who Persist, Who Write Rebellion, Who Reject Silence And Speak Out—It Can Be Dangerous, But We Are Many And Poetry Provides Us Refuge

Films In This Program:

Midnight Whispers

 A World Where Poetry Is An Illegal Substance, A Dealer Roams Around An Estate Receiving Cash In Exchange For Whispering Lines Of Illicit Verse Into Her Customers’ Ears.
(Director: Baldwin Li, Poets: Linxi Doël & Baldwin Li, United Kingdom, 2023, 10 Min, In English With English Subtitles)

Eve

US Premiere!
An Animated Poetic Retelling Of Adam & Eve’s Story.
(Meghann Plunkett & Miranda Javid, US, 2022, 2 Min, In English With Animated English Subtitles)

Exiles (Exils)

Exiles Is A Conversation With Oneself When The Ground Slips Away Beneath Our Feet. A Forced Journey, When We Would Rather Remain Grounded By Our Roots; The Refusal Of An Imposed Destiny, Out Of Home. A Dreamlike Vision Of A Home-Island That We Cling To; Our Asylum From Chaos.
(Director: Josef Khallouf, Poet: Corinne Boulad, Lebanon, 2023, 5 Min, In French With Hardcoded English Subtitles)

The Racist Bone

West Coast Premiere!
Poet And Cave Canem Co-Founder Cornelius Eady Performs “The Racist Bone,” Exploring The Subtle And Straightforward Aspects Of Racism Through The Lens Of The Classic B-Movie.
(Director: Matthew Thompson, Poet: Cornelius Eady, US, 2022, 3 Min, In English With No Subtitles Or Captions)

Bubble Hat

World Premiere!
Through The Lens Of An Outsider Estranged From Urban Life, Bubble Hat Is An Evocative Poetry Film That Delves Into The Sense Of Alienation Birthed From The Frantic Hustle Of An Automated, Fast-Paced Culture.
(Directors: Maryam Imogen Ghouth & Kama Ranaulo, Poet: Maryam Imogen Ghouth, United Arab Emirates, 2023, 4 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Subtitles)

When I Was Clandestine (Cuando Fui Clandestino)

US Premiere!
Juan Garrido Salgado Immigrated To Australia From Chile In 1990, Fleeing The Regime That Burned His Poetry, Imprisoned Him, And Tortured Him For His Political Activism. “My Verse Is Born By The Nights Of The Curfew… When I Was Clandestine.”
(Director Ian Gibbins, Poet: Juan Garrido Salgado, Australia, 2023, 5 Min, In English & Spanish With Hardcoded Subtitles In Spanish And English)

Walk One Mile

Northwest Premiere!
Incarcerated High School Students Ask You To “Walk One Mile… Just One, In My Shoes.”
(Director: Lindy Boustedt, Poet: Echo Glen H.S. Student, US, 2023, 2 Min, In English With No Subtitles Or Captions)

The Light That Burns Us

World Premiere!
“GREECE, Your Light Caught Us By Your E And Burned Us All The Way To Your G.”A Poetry Film Against Nationalism And The State Of Emergency In Greece.
(Directors: Jazra Khaleed & Silvia Tsompanaki, Poet: Jazra Khaleed, Greece, 2023, 7 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Text)

Broken Arabic

US Premiere!
A Spoken Word Poem About The War Within The Diaspora Child Living Between Two Continents, Unable To Fully Give Their Condolences In The Language Of Their Grief.
(Amal Kassir, US, 2024, 4 Min, In English & Arabic With Hardcoded English And Arabic Subtitles)

Ossip & Marina - The Forbidden Words (Ossip E Marina - Entre As Linhas)

US Premiere!
CW: Nudity And Consensual Intimacy.
The Life And The Verses Of Ossip Mandelstam And Marina Tsvetaeva Incite Us To Use Forbidden Words – Words That We Cannot Speak In Public, Or Even To Our Loved Ones.
(Elcio Basilio, Brazil, 2023, 34 Min, In Portuguese With English Subtitles And Intertitles)

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April 21,2024-4:30PM

(66 Min TRT)
This Showcase Is A Raft In Time’s Glacial Runoff. Watching These Video Poems, We Are Carried By A Current Of Memory, Lineage, And Rebirth. Some Of The Works In This Showcase Alter Linear Time To Revise Inherited Hurt Or To Recycle Joy Into New Purpose. Others Contain Multiple Realities—Worlds Where Past Trauma And Future Recovery Exist In The Tension Of Now, Where The Horrors Of War Share A Line With Clipping Coupons. These Pieces Accept That The River Of Time Is Endless, That There Are Always Possibilities For Progress

Films In This Program:

Table For One

West Coast Premiere!
A Relationship Comes To A Boil And Then Ends; In Mind, If Not In Fact.
(Director: Matt Mullins, Poet: Carol Ann Palomba, US, 2023, 2 Min, In English With English Intertitles)

On A Bus (Around Men)

World Premiere!
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, 6 Min, In English With English Subtitles)

Post-Performance (Pós-Performance)

World Premiere!
CW: Contains Images Of Twin Towers On 9/11
Post-Performance Is An Audiovisual Study On The Excessive Production And Archiving Of Digital Images Produced By Contemporary Human Beings.
(Gustavo Colombini, Brazil & Portugal, 2023, 14 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Text)

Griefsong

West Coast Premiere!
An Animation In Collaboration With Poet Sherre Vernon And Her Poem “Griefsong,” An Echo Of The Memory Of Her Late Brother.
(Director: Schantelle Alonzo, Poet: Sherre Vernon, US, 2023, 2 Min, In English With No Subtitles Or Captions)

The Bridge

World Premiere!
A Conceptual Short Film Adaptation Of “The Bridge,” By Seattle Poet Gabrielle Bates.
(Director: Liesa Cole, Poet: Gabrielle Bates, US, 2023, 2 Min, In English With Animated English Text)

Black Currants

World Premiere!
A Soft, Split-Screen Montage Of Still Photos Jostles Blossoms Against A Wintry Poem From Echo Park Film Center’s Haiku You Workshop.
(Director: Wendy Oberlander, Poet: Nuri Rosegg, Canada, 2023, 1 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Text)

The Climate Change Volumes: Spring

West Coast Premiere!
Pondering The Transformations We Are Seeing In The Mountains And Their Surrounding Ecosystems As Our Climate Warms, Climate Change Volumes: Spring Laments The Changes In Our Spring Season As Glaciers Recede And Snow – Our Summer Water Source – Melts Faster Than It Ever Has Before.
(Director: Hugo Sindelar, Poet: Travis Truax, US, 2023, 6 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Subtitles)

The Apple And The Tree

US Premiere!
An Encounter Between A Poet And A Man Who Runs A Grocery Store In Sweden Results In A Poem About Sacrifice, When Family Life And Work Life Are Woven Together.
(Directors: Andja Arnebäck & Sara Garib, Poet: Sara Garib, Sweden, 2024, 4 Min, In Swedish With Hardcoded English Subtitles)

Paused

Seattle Premiere!
It’s Christmastime In The City, And One Man Has All The Time In The World In This Poetic Rumination On Wasted Time.
(Carson J. Knecht, US, 2023, 3 Min, In English With English Subtitles)

Only

World Premiere!
The Poetry Film Only, Based On The Book By Rebecca Foust, Is Literal (Her Son Was Born With An APGAR 1 Score, Not Breathing For A Few Minutes Until He Was Resuscitated With A Hand Pump), Metaphorical (Many People Discount The Lives And Experiences Of People On The Autism Spectrum), And Also Surreal. Filmed On The Coastline With Intense Exposure To The Elements, This Work Highlights The Experiences Of Those Othered In Our Society.
(Director: Maxine Flasher-Düzgüne?, Poet: Rebecca Foust, US, 2023, 2 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Text)

Close Spaces

World Premiere!
In Light Of A Public Health Crisis That Encouraged Isolation And Distance, Close Spaces Utilizes African American Vernacular English (AAVE) To Highlight And Exalt The Intimate And Confined Spaces That Drive The Genuine, Everyday Connections That Are Necessary For Humanity.
(Kamari Bright, US, 2023, 4 Min, In English With English Closed Captions)

Hidden Life

West Coast Premiere!
This Cinepoem Explores Code-Switching, Cultural Humility, And Hidden Complexities That Lay Behind Simple Stories Of Joy, Trauma, And Wonder Rooted In The Perpetual Summer Of Houston, As Seen By One Born Here And By One Who Fled To Here From Atrocities In Her Wintry Native Land.
(Director: Chap Edmonson, Poet: Elina Petrova, US, 2023, 4 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Subtitles)

POEM OF POEM TITLES FOR "DAYS OF THE WEEK"

World Premiere!
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)

This One Thing

World Premiere!
Filmed Onsite At King County Recology’s Material Recovery Facility In Seattle During A Four-Month Stint As Artist In Residence. The MRF Is A Curiosity: A Site Ripe For Anthropological Digs, Offering A Continual Parade Of Infinitely Mucky, Diverse, Commingled Materials That Form A Collective Portrait Of Desire, Consumption, And Willful Forgetting. Along The Route Of The Behemoth Sorting Machine, Where Humans Pick Out Contaminants By Hand, There Is A Place Where Paper Waste Is Shuffled Along: Faded Family Photos, Handwritten Homework, Valentines And Love Letters, Postcards And Pornography. This Film Is About One Such Thing.
(Amanda Manitach, US, 2023, 1 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Text)

Reading The Body: Recovery

Dancers Create Original Choreography Based On Poetry About Recovery, Set To Original Music, And Highlighted With ASL Interpretation In This Co-Production Of Bellevue Literary Review And The Paige Fraser Foundation.
(Directors: Danielle Ofri & Paige Fraser-Hoffman, Poets: Anthony Aguero, Monique Ferrell, Talia Bloch & Nicholas Yingling, US, 2023, 14 Min, In American Sign Language & English With English Intertitles)

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Date :April 19-21,2024

Time :April 19, 2024 at 7:30pm

April 20, 2024 at 4:30pm

April 21, 2024 at 4:30pm

Location : Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th AvenueSeattle, WA 98122

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