(on some other planet you may be right)

Linear video, 5:12. Online.

An improvised audio-visual piece, collaboration via internet during social isolation of Covid pandemy.

“working within limits can result in different feelings. in this project we chose to be inspired by current limitations (social distance). each individual contributing his part to the whole- every person has a statement of his own that does not need (direct) support but rather a multi-centered environment that elevates the complexity of the piece. it is wonderful to collaborate with artists (dead or alive) from different backgrounds and approaches and see what can be done collectively.” – Ziv Taubenfeld

– The words:

“On some other planet you may be right, not here.” While you were talking you changed to a silent weeping, as in the middle of a letter you change, when your pen goes dry, from blue to black, or as people used to switch horses during a journey. Talk grew tired, tears are always fresh.

Seeds of summer flew into the room we were sitting in. In front of the window there was an almond tree growing black: One more warrior in the eternal battle of the sweet against the bitter.

Look, just as time isn’t inside clocks, love isn’t inside bodies: bodies only show love.

But let’s remember this evening the way people remember the motions of swimming from one summer to the next. “On some other planet you may be right, but not here.”

(Yehuda Amichai translated by Chana Bloch)

– Ziv Taubenfeld • bass clarinet, percussion, voice Olie Brice • double bass Ido Bukelman • banjo Onno Govaert • drums, percussion Pablo Dias & The Gold Fish Club • video manipulation, editing