NAME: Naomie Kremer

YEAR: 2021/ CHOSE-N

GENRE: Film/Visual

TITLE: Tree of Life

DESCRIPTION: A short film and proposed mural inspired by Genesis. The work is adapted from "In the Beginning was Desire,” a feature-length film I made with filmmaker David Grubin, based on interviews with Biblical scholar Avivah Zornberg.

INSPIRED BY: "Four Entered Paradise," Talmud: Hagigah 14b

“RABBI AKIVA SAID: WE WERE FOUR WHO WENT INTO THE PARADISE. ONE LOOKED AND DIED, ONE LOOKED AND WAS SMITTEN, ONE LOOKED AND CUT THE SHOOTS, AND I WANT IN IN PEACE AND CAME OUT IN PEACE.”