Presented by the festival’s directors, Chelsea Werner-Jatzke and Rana San, this showcase presents a collection of works from the Cadence Video Poetry Festival,  a Seattle-based series of screenings, workshops, and discussions on the genre of video poetry, during National Poetry Month.

Cadence approaches video poetry as a literary genre that exists as experimental film. This showcase demonstrates how video poetry makes new meaning from the combination of text and moving image. Whether a work starts from an image or a word, found footage or fragmented text, a dream or a drought, each of these video poems expands concepts of both the poetic and the experimental to evoke new understandings and touch on complex emotional realities. 

A special program of Experiments in Cinema v20.0, which runs April 16-20 2025 in Albuquerque NM. More information about the festival at www.experimentsincinema.org