Cadence Video Poetry Screening: ceaseless, of the earth
Witness the remarkable durability of beauty and identity with six unique films inspired by the still life traditions explored in the current exhibition Wallflowers. Through silence, surrealism, and solitude, these video poems linger in past lives, lost loves, and homelands, reminding us that life often requires stillness to process and remember. Flowers appear as framework, fragility, and femininity, moving between studies of materiality and memory. Even in the face of oppression, impermanence, or illness, still life persists.
Following the screening, join Cadence Festival co-directors Rana San and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke for an in-person and virtual discussion with participating artists from Seattle and around the world.
About Cadence Video Poetry
Cadence Video Poetry, co-directed by Chelsea Werner-Jatzke and Rana San, features generative workshops and an annual festival that foster critical and creative growth around the medium of video poetry. Cadence approaches video poetry as a literary genre presented as visual media that makes new meaning from the combination of text and moving image.
The 2026 Festival takes place in person April 17–19 at Northwest Film Forum, and online April 17–30.
Films in this program
Hold my hand, 2025
Daily life in confinement during the pandemic unfolds through moments of care, life, and death, in resonance with a series of poems that punctuate the fragility of shared moments.
By Sophie Sherman, Belgium
17 min, in English and French with English subtitles
Copper Oxidizing, 2025
The gradual transformation of copper through oxidation reflects the spirit of deconstruction, turning material change into a metaphor.
By Neely Goniodsky, US
1 min, non-verbal
Chiari del Bosco, 2025
A voice from the past echoes through worn cassettes as a solitary man tries to recreate the face of that voice. All the while, an entity observes and feeds on his obsession.
By director Sarah Troiani and poet Antonia Pozzi, Italy
14 min, in Italian with English subtitles
kindergarten, 2023
Valeriya, born in Kazakhstan, tells a story from her childhood in Balkhash. What we hear is her story; what we see is her silence.
By Yann les Jours, France & Germany
3 min, in English with English subtitles
The Motion, 2025
The perspective of four women, the voices of three, but the story of one—and of many.
By director Lisa Danilkovych and poets Eva Muilerman & Lisa Danilkovych, Netherlands
8 min, in English with English subtitles
what does it feel like to live inside of a pomegranate?, 2025
A young woman discovers a giant pomegranate in the forest and decides to live inside it.
By Kamyar Mohsenin, US
5 min, non-verbal
This event is produced in partnership with the Cadence Video Poetry Festival.
The subtitle for this event ceaseless, of the earth is courtesy of Sarah Troiano, from the poem Chiari del Bosco, 2025.
Cadence Video Poetry Screening: ceaseless, of the earth
Lisa Danilkovych, The Motion (still), 2025. Digital video (color, sound); 8:00 min. Courtesy of the artist
April 30, 2026
6–8 pm
704 Terry Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104