Haus für Poesie

Miracles

Avi Dabach Israel 2009 3:40 min poem: Al Ha-nisim T. Carmi

The baby and the house are sleeping. The war goes on. Only one man, wide-awake, can see the ongoing miracle.

Altruist

Avi Dabach Israel 2009 11:25 min poem: The Altruist T. Carmi

Micha Shalvi came back from the war with a bomb inside him. When will it explode?

Spring '82

Avi Dabach Israel 2009 3:30 min poem: Report: Spring 82 T. Carmi

A woman, defying gravity, tries to reach the antenna skies and let trees fly.

White City

Avi Dabach Israel 2007 2:36 min poem: Ba'ir Halevana T. Carmi

A poem about love-making, written in a snow covered city, where you can't pass through without leaving traces.

Forgetfulness

Avi Dabach Israel 2008 1:24 min poem: Only thanks to forgetfulness... T. Carmi

Forgetfulness and memory as essential values of life.

A different love song

Uri Bar-on Israel 2006 8:51 min Gedicht: A different love song Yehuda Amichai

Love beyond passion, love that doesn't need any proof: A loving couple in his late seventies, loving like one wouldn't expect.

Hourglass

Zohar Behrendt 2005 Poem A man's life is very long by Yehuda Amichai

"A man's life is very long, to see sand turning into road then into sand again and to love again the woman he used to love."

I Kurt S.

Anat Pick Israel 2010 6:08 min poem: Ursonate Kurt Schwitters

How does the text stimulate the performer's voice and action? Standing blindfolded in front of two mirrors, the performer is trying to gain control over the text.   

Mountain High

Avi Dabach Israel 2010 2:50 min poem: Igra Rama Tal Nitzán

"There castles of the lords did besiege me". Going up the roof one day, discovering the forest of towers, suffocating the city.

Take

Dorit Talpaz Israel 2009 / 2010 1 min poem: kach Meir Wieseltier

This poem fragments the text and movement of words into layers and stairs of progression - or rather, regression - until it comes alive as feelings, or develops a physical presence.

Love Poem

Emanuella Amichai Israel 2006 6:54 min poem: Love Poem Yehuda Amichai

A man and a woman share one bed, measuring each other's loneliness and compassion.

Serpent

Avi Dabach Israel 2008 6:40 min poem: Nachash nachash T. Carmi

A chaotic, desperate dancer tries to conjure up the forces of evil.  

To Be There

Sharon Lenger Israel 2008 10 min poem: To Be There Sharon Lenger

Brief glimpses into residential apartments in Tel-Aviv. An attempt to breathe in the life that is there, and feel slightly at home.