ceaseless, of the earth
Join us for an in-person and virtual discussion with participating artists following the screening!
Thursday, April 30, 2026
6 – 8 pm
IN PERSON: $5–$15 | Free community access
Special offer! Register before April 16 and receive a code for 50% off a full pass to the Cadence Video Poetry Festival at Northwest Film Forum in your confirmation email.
Ceaseless, of the Earth
(48 min TRT)
Through silence, surrealism, and solitude, these video poems linger in past lives, lost loves, and homelands, inviting us to observe what new understandings emerge when we sit still long enough to watch the paint dry.
Expanding on the fertile ground of the floral still life explored in the Frye Art Museum Wallflowers exhibition, these video poems reflect on the remarkable durability of identity and beauty. Sculpture and tableaux, painting and portraiture echo with villanelle, voice, and verse that remind us that life demands stillness to process and remember.
Throughout these six films, flowers appear as framework, fragility, and femininity in footage shifting between studies of materiality and memory. Defiant 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.
This event is produced in partnership with Frye Art Museum.
Showcase title credit: Chiari del Bosco, 2025, director: Sarah Troiano, poet: Antonia Pozzi
Films in This Program
Hold my hand
US premiere
Daily life in confinement during the pandemic, where moments of care, life, and death unfold in resonance with a series of poems that punctuate the fragility of shared moments.
Sophie Sherman, Belgium, 2025, 17 min, in English & French with English subtitles
Copper Oxidizing
World premiere
The gradual transformation of copper through oxidation reflects the spirit of deconstruction, turning material change into a metaphor.
Neely Goniodsky, US, 2025, 1 min, non-verbal
Chiari del Bosco
US premiere
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.
director: Sarah Troiano, poet: Antonia Pozzi, Italy, 2025, 14 min, in Italian with English subtitles
kindergarten
Valeriya, born in Kazakhstan, tells a story from her childhood in Balkhash. What we hear is her story, what we see is her silence.
Yann les Jours, France & Germany, 2023, 3 min, in English with English subtitles
The Motion
The perspective of four women, the voices of three, but the story of one—and of many.
director: Lisa Danilkovych, poets: Eva Muilerman & Lisa Danilkovych, Netherlands, 2025, 8 min, in English with English subtitles
what does it feel like to live inside of a pomegranate?
A young woman discovers a giant pomegranate in the middle of the forest and decides to live inside it.
Kamyar Mohsenin, US, 2025, 5 min, non-verbal
About the Exhibition
Wallflowers
February 7 – May 17, 2026
Frye Art Museum
Wallflowers is a dialogue across time centered on one of art history’s most underestimated genres: the floral still life. Bringing together eleven paintings from the Frye’s collection with newly commissioned wallpaper designs from eleven contemporary artists, the exhibition explores how artists from the nineteenth century to the present have turned to floral imagery as fertile ground for experimentation and reinvention.
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