Enter the heart space, where truth and myth collide. One part scorned, one part fickle, and one part everlasting, these video poems test the healthy boundaries and boundless borders of love. This showcase takes many lovers, breaks many hearts, and holds many hands to embrace all the forms of intimacy, from unconditional to unrequited. (60 min TRT) < bit.ly/cadence2025love >
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. (64 min TRT) < bit.ly/cadence2025more >
In the face of displacement, exile, conformity, and crisis, these video poems approach existence as resistance. Creating belonging in new places, taking up space through performance art, examining the material reality of tragedy, and communing with nature to explore internal worlds—the works in this showcase offer sure footing and tender steps forward as the global landscape shifts beneath our feet. (73 min TRT) < bit.ly/cadence2025grounding >
Life cycles leave a snail trail across the screen. These video poems navigate the vast expanse of time with subtle, personal narratives that collapse the space between art and home, womb and grave, career and honey bucket. Through mantras, photographs, and windows the works in this showcase offer a glimpse into eternity while embracing the temporary. (61 min TRT) < bit.ly/cadence2025minutely >
Through generous support from 4Culture, Cadence offers free tickets for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, low-income patrons, and others who would otherwise not be able to attend due to financial reasons.