Jerusalem In My Heart share short film “Tanto” from Qalaq

Jerusalem In My Heart have shared a short film for “Tanto“, which is taken from their new album Qalaq, out now on Constellation. The song features guest collaborator Lucrecia Dalt and the short film was shot on 16mm by JIMH filmmaker Erin Weisgerber with concept and performance by dancer/choreographer Stacey Desilier.

About “Tanto”, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh said: “Lucrecia Dalt and I have shared much music with one another, and over the course of the many years of knowing each other and sharing stages, we decided to collaborate on the track “Tanto” for Qalaq. We discussed a few ideas and wanted to keep it minimal, but maintain the form of a ‘duet’. We exchanged some music and she came up with a beautiful tape loop for the backbone of the track, through which we were able to find our vocal identities. It was a haunting, eerie, out-of-time tape loop, which she proposed after I had sent her the (Arabic) lyrics and a translation of them—and most importantly, their intention. The song is meant to evoke the feeling of ‘envy’ familiar to many people in developing nations. Legs in an Eastern sewage, eyes in a Western fictitious paradise.

Erin Weisgerber and I decided to make a small film for this song. I had wanted to work with the incredible Stacey Desilier as a choreographer and dancer. We exchanged some ideas and I sent everyone some film references, to which everyone echoed back others, and from there we settled on a setting and imagery and actions and shot this film in the forests north of Tiohtia:ke / Montréal.

Watch the short film for “Tanto” below:

Jerusalem In My Heart Qalaq Tour 2021

03.11 Nantes FR • Le Lieu Unique
04.11 Bordeaux FR • Blonde Venus
05.11 Bourges FR • Antre Peaux/Nadir
06.11 Dijon FR • La Vapeur
07.11 Geneva CH • Cave12 *
08.11 Clermont-Ferrand FR • La Coopérative de Mai **
09.11 Lille FR • L’Aéronef **
10.11 Metz FR • Chapelle des Trinitaires ***
14.11 Paris FR • Point Éphémère
15.11 Munich DE • Rote Sonne
17.11 Genoa IT • La Claque
18.11 Terni IT • Teatro Secci
19.11 Ravenna IT • Bronson
20.11 Cornuda IT • Tipoteca Italiana
26.11 Montréal CA • La Cinémathèque
27.11 Montréal CA • La Cinémathèque
04.12 Ottawa CA • Arts Court (Pique Series)
07.12 Quebec CA • Grand Théâtre

* w/Jessica Moss ** w/Thurston Moore Group *** w/Ana Roxanne

Photo credit: Isabelle Stachtchenko
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