Identity of the Soul is a multi-screen film about the impact of personal choices on the human spirit. Based on Henrik Ibsen's ‘Terje Vigen’ and Mahmoud Darwish's ‘A Soldier Dreams of White Lilies’ , IDENTITY of the SOUL brings together poetry from the West and the Middle East, emphasising our common humanity.
It is a five screen cinematic interpretation of work by two of the world’s most illustrious and famous poets with an extraordinary soundtrack, archive footage and narrated on the screen by the late Darwish himself. The moving associated images are dramatically interspersed with compelling sequences of powerful verse imaginatively brought to life by the performer’s impressive interpretation. These are simultaneously projected onto five large screens. The symbolic imagery, music and movements act as a backdrop for the narrated words.
Identity of the Soul has been produced in six languages, each version narrated by distinguished performers of international renown, who contribute their own nuanced and powerful interpretations of the works of Henrik Ibsen and Mahmoud Darwish. During the Herzliya Biennial the Hebrew, Arabic and English version will be shown to the public on the following dates:
10 October at 18:00 (Hebrew), 20:00 (Hebrew) and 22:00 (Hebrew)
11 October at 18:00 (Arabic), 20:00 (Hebrew) and 22:00 (Hebrew)
12 October at 11:00 (English)
13 October at 20:00 (Hebrew) and 22:00 (Hebrew)
Narrators:
Vanessa Redgrave – English
Mahmoud Darwish – Arabic
Jean Rochefort – French
Irrfan Khan – Urdu
Jan Wiig – Norwegian
Anne Grete Preus – Norwegian
Gila Almagor – Hebrew
Tickets:
Ensemble Herzliya
Tel: 972-(0)9-9552921
Sunday to Thursday, 10:00-18:00
Friday, 09:00- 13:00