Video Poems
Lifeboat Blues
Prophet-rock response to this anxious moment in Jewish history, where echoes of ancient stories mix with a digital media dream world, and the difficulty, on a sea of connectivity, in finding solid ground.
Song of Zion. Hebrew Poem by Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141). Music composed and sung by Etti Ankri (2009). Translated and set to images by eBenBrandeis (Tu B'shvat 2011).
Happy to dwell on Earth. Video psalm. Aviva Chernick’s meditative chant, Israel’s desert beauty, Canada’s Algonquin beauty... אַשְׁרֵי יוֹשְׁבֵי בֵיתֶךָ עוֹד יְהַלְלוּךָ Happy are those who dwell in Your house, they will sing Your praises. Psalm 84:5 Based on chant by Rabbi Shefa Gold
In Diaspora lands and the Land of Israel, Toronto and Tel Aviv, Algonquin Park and Galil, the sun is setting on the past Jewish year. What will the New Year bring? For each of us personally? And for all of us collectively? The darkness spreads the fragrance of hope... Hebrew words & music written & sung by Avigail Cohen
Original Hebrew wedding poem, inspired by Genesis 1, 2, Song of Songs & Yehuda HaLevi (1075-1141); set to music of John Dowland (1563-1626), performed by WR. Free English translation. כּוכְבֵי תֵבֶל – פִיוּט לחֲתֻנָה עִבְרִי שיר עברי מקורי אבן ברנדייס
Images & language. Unites a Wander travelogue of SW English sights – Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Middlesex – drawn from a camera; and a Seeking personal meditation (a la Keats) on Relationship, Nature, Belief, Metaphor - drawn from the well of that island language.