filmography

Music video for Theresa Sokyrka. Directed by Anita Doron. Cinematography by Samy Inayeh and Anita Doron.

An incredible adventure in Peru. Somewhere in a tiny village in southern Peru, a coca leaf reading Shaman revealed that my totem animal is a puma and a hummingbird and led me to a sacred room and put my forehead against a giant, stuffed condor with turquoise eyes that represented his spirit. Then Machu Picchu. There are no words to describe this place. Imagine lush, steep, giant mountains with rugged, razor edges crawling high into the sky, hugged by gently moving puffs of fog. And bellow them ruins of an ancient mystery and miracle of a city. And to be inside it, to walk through it, to touch the stones, the steep terraces… Orchids, falcons, deep cliffs bellow your feet and Inka rocks you can smell. Life changing. Then Pisac… The razor sharp lush mountains poking at the sky, the colourful buildings and the market hugging an ancient square lined with tiny, round cobble stones. In the middle of the square a giant tree that was planted when the community was founded. This tree hovering above the square and its branches dotted by sensuous moss that flows down like royal silk. On this tree two life sized effigies are hung - a man and a woman in traditional clothing. And in the square… The most complete and pure manifestation of life: traditional Qechuan dancing, water bombs, coloured foam wars, a little girl that captivated us in her flowery head-dress and ancient clothing, who chased her puppy, flung it around by its foot, wrapped it under a blanket, climbed under a table to retrieve it and was just generally adorable. John, the producer and I went looking for food and as I passed one of the groups of dancers and musicians, I danmced to the beat. They clapped and encouraged me to dance with them immediately putting a colourful thingie around my neck. Within moments, we all were involved in a communal dance meets drinking game with the locals. One man took the lead on a guitar, one or two women sing and a giant bottle of beer and a cup goes around from person to person. You drink your beer really fast cause you need to pass on the cup, but you must pour out the last sip onto the earth as an offering. It got increasingly festive, fast, happy and loud, Then Theresa, the singer had a whistling back and forth call with several of the singers like Juan and others. I think this was perhaps the highlight. At a local, not for tourist market, we saw fresh fruit stands looking like a rows and rows of colourful slot machines, frogs skinned alive, cow snouts for sale, unidentifiable (and better left as so) animal parts, fresh cheeses and breads with little baroque painted sculptures of babies and lamas baked inside them, strings of dried egg row looking like plants and tasting seeds and new kinds of fruits.