Extract From "Video Chronicles"

HACCOUN MYRIAM

“VIDEO CHRONICLES” Video journal
Video Format: Quick time
Country of origin: Israel
Year of production: 2008-2009
Presentation : On a small screen from 7 to 10 inch


As a journal, I’m filming with a digital camera, my everyday life:
my Family and friends, my school, Jewish celebrations etc…

As an ethnologue I start to look at the Israeli society, this melting pot of cultures, and languages.
The sounds, the languages became a part of my work;
Trying to catch the human voice as a music.
The human voice does not deceive. The one who is speaking is inevitably revealed by the singular sound of her voice, no matter “what” she says.

I’m trying to catch the fragility and the ephemeral of a moment.
It is the image of a man running that fascinates me, not why he runs or where to.
“Besides colours it is especially sounds, which evokes in us a corresponding mood. This is chiefly true of human voice; for this is the principal way in which person shows for inner nature; what he is and that he puts into his voice”
Hegel “Encyclopaedia”




The song of Miriam:
"Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing. And Miriam sang to them: "Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.”

In the Biblical-times music, there is no strong dichotomy between speaking and singing. In Scripture language is generally connected to the life of the person.
Why does Miriam’s story matter? Miriam is a reminder of the importance of the prophetic voice, the one who risks living fully in the world, as it is so as to help people see how it could be. "Where there is no vision, the people perish."
She reminds us that it is important to speak your truth even when it gets you in trouble.
She reminds that it right and good to sing and to dance with joy, especially when we are uncertain, tired, and afraid.



The Psalm 130:
"Out of the depths have I cried to You, O Lord.
Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
If You, Lord, should keep account of and treat us according to our sins, O Lord, who could stand? "

The concept of the mouth expressing the heart and the words of a person being taken as the essence or heart of a person is ubiquitous in Scripture.
On the basis of what Scripture teaches about the words of man and the words of God, it is not surprising that there are no strict separations between praise and prayer which is spoken, sung, and shouted.
All verbal activity manifests the heart and the Word of God changes the heart. The fruit of the lips is the result.
The most important music is vocal.