A Visual and Cinematic Tribute to the Poems of Yehuda Amichai
A Sonnet for Yuda attempts to translate into a visual and cinematic language a few of the poems of Yehuda Amichai, one of Israel’s most prominent poets, who died in 2000. Several filmmakers joined together for this project, creating their own interpretation of Amichai’s poems, using various genres: fiction, documentary, video art, video dance and so on. Each film is like a poem in film, which creates a living, surprising and condensed contact between the poem and the viewers.
Yoni Zigler, ‘Rain on the Battlefield’ (4:58)
Sharona Berger, ‘Songs to Myself’ (4:34)
Doron Solomons, ‘I’m Tired’ (2:20)
Emanuela Amichai & Amnon Winer, ‘Love Song’ (6:40)
'The Month of Elul in Ein Kerem', courtesy of Mika Karni and Helicon (4:20)
Lina & Slava Chaplin, ‘Like Our Bodies Imprint’ (3:40)
Tomer Heiman, ‘Songs for a Woman’ (4:03)
Regev Contes, ‘The Model’ (5:42)
Avi Dabach, ‘Young David’ (4:48)
Zohar Behrendt, ‘Hour Glass’ (6:00)
Hadara Levin-Aredi, Jonathan Bar-Giora, ‘Now, when the waters are pressing mightily’ (5:53)
Michal Klein and Asaf Shafir, ‘Life’s Verdict’ (9:49)
Yehuda Amichai, ‘Mayor’ (0:35)
All works accept the last one (1991) produced in 2005.
(From The Israeli Center for Digital Art Website)