About
Since 2018
Cadence Video Poetry, co-directed by Chelsea Werner-Jatzke and Rana San, fosters critical and creative growth around the medium of video poetry.
We approach video poetry as a literary genre presented as visual media that makes new meaning from the combination of text and moving image.
Cadence Video Poetry is a nonprofit corporation based in Seattle, WA, generously supported by 4Culture and fiscally sponsored by Northwest Film Forum.
We pay all participating artists and teaching artists and offer sliding-scale and free access to many of our programs. This is unique in the film festival industry, and it’s possible because Cadence is supported by art lovers like you.
Team
Chelsea Werner-Jatzke
Rana San
Verse Meets Visuals
Video poetry is language as light. As an art form, video poetry is lucid and liminal—on the threshold of the literary and the moving image. It articulates the poetic image visually, rather than metaphorically—it shifts words from page to screen, from ink to light. A video poem makes meaning that would not exist if text was without image, image without text. It is language-based video work or a video-based poem. Video poetry is a literary genre presented as visual media.
We welcome:
- Collaborations between video artists and writers
- Video by poets creating video from, or as, their writing
- Video artists creating poetic meaning through visual or aural text
- Video work that’s poetically informed or poetry that’s visually informed that isn’t easily defined
- …and beyond!
Any poems used for adaptations of pre-existing poetry must be in the public domain or else used with written consent of the author.
Get in Touch
Next Up
Dreaming Ecosystems: Film Poetry Workshop
Space is limited
Cadence Casual [in person]
