NAME: KEN PAUL ROSENTHAL

Genre: Video art

Title: The Calling of Jerusalem

Project: A looping video portrait of poet Julia Vinograd, constructed from the individual letters of her poem about God and Jerusalem’s broken romance. As the perspective slowly zooms out and back, the written word and Julia’s image cycle between markings without meaning and visual and literary coherence. A recording of Vinograd reciting the poem over an evocative music and sound score lends a narrative thread to the fragmented graphic elements.

Inspired by Ken’s documentary-in-progress “Julia Vinograd: Between Spirit and Stone.”

Text: “You definitely need a broken heart. But you also need it to be whole so that the two are united and complimentary—whole and broken.” 

Shmuel of Shinova, Ramatayim Tsofim (Warsaw, 1908), 1:69