Cadence Video Poetry Festival – a sculpture of echoes

Vegetal time meets time travel, demonstrating the subtle ways in which we are interconnected and influenced by our environments. Urban infrastructure defines new habitats, the hand that feeds nourishes a new intimacy, and a surreal spell brings new life into being. Creation myth, memory, humor, and history combine in unexpected ways as these video poems ask: Is it cake? Or is it chaos?

This showcase features two poetic screendances: 

“Reach” from the US

At the crossroads of intimacy, trails of invisible energy imprint as two wanderers maneuver throughout the landscape, leaving hints of mirrored action yet inverted perspective. Through the shifting shape, current, and conduit of water, “Reach” follows the journey of two people in search of the other.

“WE’VE WORKED SO MUCH (ABBIAMO LAVORATO TANTO)” from Italy

Through a visual poem of words, dance, and matters, the colossal forms of cement mixers in a deserted factory become transformative spaces. The notion of labor and motherhood is redefined through these looming metallic bodies of resonance—concrete mixers treated as productive organs, sites of a life’s work.

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Cadence Video Poetry is a literary media organization hosting year-round screenings, an artist residency, workshops, and artist gatherings to nurture creative community through video poetry.

Event Date & Time: April 18, 7-9pm