Kateryna Ostrovska - Blondzhendike lider (Making of)

Dir. Marx Braga

This is a making of video about "Blondzhendike Lider" project, the recording in October 2021 in Rio de Janeiro. The complete geography varies from Hamburg, Berlin, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Saint Petersburg, Chisinau, and Sofia. This is a joint work of various Jewish (and not only) poets, artists, and musicians who either themselves have experience of immigration or are descendants of immigrants.

"Wandering Poems" or "Wandering Songs" refers to the title of Sholom Aleichem's novel Wandering Stars. The name symbolizes the cultural heritage extracted from the depths of the immigrant suitcase. The experience of emigration, which was central to many Jews, brings with it the need to constantly switch between different worlds, contact with different cultures, or, based on the words of Jacques Derrida, the lack of identity as one of the main symbols of Jewish identity. Some participants are famous, others are not. Some have devoted themselves intensely to the Jewish cultural heritage, others have made a name for themselves as music performers of their new homeland.

- to be released in September 2022 DaCasa Records/Gallileo MC