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Original Film Title: Eicha: The Book of Lumenations
Director’s Name: Adeena Michelle Karasick
Writer’s Name: Adeena Michelle Karasick
Producer: Adeena Michelle Karasick
Language: English
Runtime: 19 minutes 16 seconds
Film Description:
Calling attention to the ecology and concerns relating to physical, emotional, psychological historical and environmental disaster, Eicha: The Book of Lumenations takes as its jumping off point the Biblical Eicha, The Book of Lamentations, which sings the dirges of mourning, and laments the destruction of both Temples and Jerusalem. Tracking through desolation, misery, hope, lament and prayer, the 5-part suite homophonically re-situates the original text to the horrors and hope of the present moment.
Through a luminous threading of light, Eicha highlights how darkness is a form of light; and through palimpsested language and shadowed identity, mirror an ever-disintegrating environment, and speaks to aspects of desire and recovery in an otherwise fraught time.
The entire text was recently published in Ærotomania, The Book of Lumenations, (Lavender Ink, New Orleans, 2023), and this multidimedic translation includes shards of the original Hebrew Book of Lamenations text, luxuriously layered, bifurcated language, covid maps, election stats, alchemical cosmographies, topographies of memory, meaning, eros and being.