KLAGESANG

Videodigtet "Klagesang" af Johannes Bech Dalsgaard. Digtet er uden ord digteren selv forstår, men leger at en gruppe masaikvinder synger om jordens undergang. Videomaterialet er taget fra en række forskellige fjernsynsudsendelser på forskellige kanaler den 21. december 2012, den dag vi alle sammen troede nogen andre troede jorden ville gå under. Det gjorde den så ikke, og en lidt skamfuld fornemmelse af morbid tiltrækning stod tilbage. Videoen her er en undersøgelse af denne fascination af eskatologi og undergang som ikke kan sige sig fri for selv at ligge under for samme fascination. Musikken er en feltoptagelse af masaikvinder (taget fra albummet "African Ceremonial & Folk Music") der synger, garanteret om noget helt andet.
This is a wordless video poem called "Klagesang" in Danish, which translates to lament or elegy. The poem imagines the words sung by Masai women on the soundtrack to be a song about the end of days, as illustrated by the video. The material is taken from various TV programs broadcast on a number of Danish TV stations on the 21st of December 2012, the day everyone thought somebody else thought the world would end. Obviously, it didn't, but the phenomenon itself inspired this meditation on the apparent fascination with escatology and apocalypse that the human species seems to have. The soundtrack, as stated above, is a field recording of Masai women most probably singing about something completely different.