"Πνοές" (Video Αrt με ποιήματα ελλήνων ποιητών) | "Souffles" (vidéo art contenant des grandes œuvres de la littérature grecque) | "Breathings" (video art that portrays great works of greek literature) - 2015
33. Νίκου Καββαδία "Ἕνας νέγρος θερμαστής ἀπὸ τὸ Τζιμπουτί" (Ακουστικό - χωρίς εικόνα) / "A black stoker from Djibouti" by Nikos Kavvadias (Acoustic - without image)
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"A black stoker from Djibouti" by Nikos Kavvadias
Ένα από τα videoart εικαστικής διάθεσης πάνω σε έργα γνωστών ποιητών,
που συνθέτουν τις "Πνοές", που, από την απαγγελία ως τη σκηνοθεσία και
από την οπτική ως την μουσική επένδυσή τους, αποτελούν, εξ ολοκλήρου,
προσωπική κατάθεση του σκηνοθέτη Κυριάκου Χατζημιχαηλίδη."Ἕνας νέγρος θερμαστής ἀπὸ τὸ Τζιμπουτί"
Rainbow Voice
African Journey
Αφήγηση - Μοντάζ - Σκηνοθεσία Κυριάκος Χατζημιχαηλίδης
A black stoker from Djibouti
When he got off from his evening watch,
Willie, the Black stoker from Djibouti
would come to my cabin looking for me
and he’d laugh and talk of the strangest things.
He told me how they smoke pot in Algiers;
in Aden they dance when they take white powder.
Later they shout and talk to themselves
when dizziness wraps them in wonderful dreams.
One night he’d smoked he saw himself
charging on a white horse over the sea;
behind him raced mermaids with outstretched wings.
He said, “In Aden, you can try some too.”
I’d give him sweets and razor blades
and tell him hashish could kill a man;
he’d lift me up with one huge hand,
his whole body shaking with laughter.
In that great frame was an innocent heart;
in the bar “Regina”, once in Marseilles
he tried to protect me from a Spanish guy
and got hit on the head with an empty bottle.
One day we left him out in the East
burning with fever and wasting away.
God of the Blacks, take pity on Will
and give him white powder wherever he is.
("The Collected Poems Of Nikos Kavvadias"
Bilingual Edition, Translated by Gail Holst-Warhaft
Cosmos Publishing, New York)
Baraka
Rainbow Voice
African Journey
Recitation - Editing - Directed by
Kyriakos Chatzimichailidis
