an imperceptible mark
Sunday, April 19, 2026
6:30 pm
IN PERSON: $20 | ONLINE: $15
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An Imperceptible Mark
(62 min TRT)
Tracing a multilingual lineage through the condensation of our collective memory, this showcase peers into the abstract spaces of female poets. A feature-length video poem and an accompanying screendance expand our understanding of mother tongue and of presence, even in absence. Have we forgotten what the women before us bore, broke, and buried to survive? A chorus of layered voices invites us to remember.
Showcase title credit: Absence (Ausencia), 2025, Leslie Mabel Cota
Films in This Program
Absence (Ausencia)
US premiere
In a place woven with memories, absence is invoked only to be recognized as something filled with presence.
Leslie Mabel Cota, Mexico, 2025, 6 min, in Spanish with English & Spanish open captions
The Unforgettables (Les inoubliables)
US premiere
In The Unforgettables (Les inoubliables), 13 women interpret in their written languages the texts of 25 deceased women poets from different continents and eras who never met but nevertheless shared similar sentiments. Across eight scenes they respond to each other, producing a series of conversations about the constraints imposed on women, about wars and struggles, about writing and the boundaries of language, about relationships and the places we occupy in the world. Told in timeless black and white, the poems underline the extent to which the issues they address transcend time and space.
director: Lucile Bertrand, poets: Chika Sagawa, Nella Nobili, Forough Farrokhzâd, Véronique Wautier, Nadine Cail, Alfonsina Storni, Hélène Cadou, Emily Dickinson, May Ayim, Saniya Saleh, Marie-Louise Sibazuri, Esther Nirina, Anna Akhmatova, Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, Wislawa Szymborska, Zuzanna Ginczanka, Victoria Amelina, Fadwa Tuqan, Anise Koltz, Rose Ausländer, Noémia de Souza, Nāzik al-Malā'ika, Ingeborg Bachmann, Maria Gabriel Llansol, Adrienne Rich, Belgium, 2026, 56 min, in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese & Russian with English subtitles
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