Drums and Dancing: Ana Wild and Nir Shauloff

Ana Wild and Nir Shauloff

Drums and Dancing, 2024

« And Miriam the prophetess, sister of Aharon, took the tambourine in her hand; and all the women followed her with drums and dancing »

A filmed operetta retells the biblical tale of the Jewish exodus from Egypt, the miraculous splitting of the sea, followed by the liberation of one nation and the drowning of another. This moment of becoming a people marks the birth of a mythical narrative: a blueprint of the human need for shared ecstasy against the backdrop of a catastrophe, all set to the sound of a beating drum.