2026 Cadence Virtual Festival

Cadence Video Poetry Virtual Festival

Cadence Video Poetry Festival is available to watch from anywhere in the world! Get virtual access to individual festival showcases below.

Purchase now and tune in anytime after the start of the in-person festival on April 17, through April 30.

Click DETAILS > RENT on the showcase of your choice and countdown the days until the festival launches and the video poems are available to watch.

You Flew From My Eyes

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.

The Gaps in Me

What lies beyond the watery weight of a body? Do mirrors reflect the dusty light of truth? Part ghost story, part performance art, and part art object, these video poems forsake flesh and revel in repetition. Emerging from the sand and slime of our collective grief, they reveal the shared realities of loss and persistence, as told through sutures, similes, and mise-en-scènes.

A Sculpture of Echoes

Vegetal time meets time travel, demonstrating the subtle ways in which we are interconnected and influenced by our environments. Urban infrastructure defines new habitats, the hand that feeds nourishes a new intimacy, and a surreal spell brings new life into being. Creation myth, memory, humor, and history combine in unexpected ways as these video poems ask: Is it cake? Or is it chaos?

Proof That We Were Here

Inventing realities not as escapism but as determinism, these video poems perfect the alchemy of dreaming. A love story emerges out of the polluted atmosphere, plant life blooms into a collage of words, and ice melts into a procedural poem. Through new channels of communication with nature, these shapeshifting films prove that the key to providing a sustainable future is protecting the past.

An Imperceptible Mark

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.