you flew from my eyes
Friday, April 17, 2026
7 pm
IN PERSON: $20 | ONLINE: $15
If cost is a barrier, use code CVP26COMMUNITY for half off in-person tickets. For free community access, contact us at hello@cadencevideopoetry.org.
You Flew From My Eyes
(78 min TRT)
Giving shape and voice to what’s felt but can’t always be seen, touched, or retrieved, these video poems meditate on the marks we leave and with which we are left. Between earthly boundaries and open sky, dances, phone calls, and a trampoline become buoys for self and other within the sea of time.
Showcase title credit: The Sky After Rain (Aseman Bad Az Baran), 2021, director: Blame the Shadows Collective, poet: Payam Feili
Films in This Program
The Sky After Rain (Aseman Bad Az Baran)
US premiere
Written after the arrest of his boyfriend during Iran’s 2009 Green Movement protests, this soaring work is based on a poem by exiled Iranian poet, Payam Feili.
director: Blame the Shadows Collective, poet: Payam Feili, Australia, 2021, 8 min, in Persian with English subtitles
Spellbound Blue
World premiere
A mythical meditation on the blue decadence of earth, darkening as it deepens into the netherworld.
Angelica Urquizo, United States, 2026, 1 min, in English with hardcoded English text
What goes up
Trying to fly home, getting let down again and again. The downfall of a people. A government. A western road trip for the two crash sites of two Iraqi pilots who were training on F16s in Arizona. To see if the land bore traces of their impact. The road to Bagdad, AZ, a tiny town with a giant mine. How to excavate the sky.
Samar Al Summary, United States, 2024, 30 min, in English with hardcoded English text
Snow
In an intimate conversation about the poem “Snow,” written by the filmmaker’s deceased aunt, the filmmaker and her mother reveal a portrait of a splintered family, a messy immigration journey, and the varied threads of the Chinese diaspora bound together by a shared image of snow.
Hai-Li Kong, United States, 2025, 10 min, in English & Mandarin Chinese with embedded Chinese and English translations and definitions
shadowtree
World premiere
An existentialist exploration of boundaries driven by nostalgia, and the derealization in searching for fragments of the past to imagine the future.
Livia Glascock, United States, 2026, 5 min, in English with English subtitles
kwatye urrewe
US premiere
“kwatye urrewe” is the cleansing, running water that flows through dry desert creek beds after rain. These poets and their poems seek to cleanse the spirit in the same way, dancing with the wind and singing ancestral songs to heal the land.
Kieran Mpetyane Satour, Australia, 2024, 15 min, in English with English captions
Oracle
US premiere
Inspired by Etel Adnan’s “Le Livre de la Mer,” a meditation on our relationship to the Mediterranean Sea.
directors: Youssef ElNahas & Leena Aboutaleb, poet: Leena Aboutaleb, Egypt, Palestine, United Kingdom, 2025, 9 min, in English with English subtitles
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