The Lion of God (poetry film)
Channel: Anatoliy Kharkhurin
Date: 2015-02-17

Poetry: Tovy Harhur
Translation: Natalja Zilke
Video: Zlatan Filipović
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The Lion of God is the result of a collaboration between a poet and a video artist who – each from the perspective of their respective genres – developed the theme of parenthood. A poetic text unfolds both vertically and horizontally. A vertical reading introduces female, male, and the child’s principles, respectively. A horizontal reading presents a dialog, which expresses the union of female and male principles being realized in the process of conception. Therefore, the poem creates a multidimensional verbal space, in which male and female principles are presented vocally and in which the unvoiced child’s principle is presented visually as a part of the video. The multidimensional character of this work gathers momentum through trilingual representation: German voice of the mother, Russian voice of the father and English unborn voice of the child.