All Videos Tagged Amélia (The Visual Music Village) - The Visual Music Village 2024-05-01T17:05:20Z http://visualmusic.ning.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=Am%C3%A9lia&rss=yes&xn_auth=no Petit Lou tag:visualmusic.ning.com,2011-06-26:2232935:Video:27365 2011-06-26T19:51:29.129Z Jean Detheux http://visualmusic.ning.com/profile/JeanDetheux <a href="http://visualmusic.ning.com/video/petit-lou"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="160" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1942569897?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=160" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>The music of this film, composed and interpreted by Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, was born out of a need to exorcise a loss.<br></br> Similarly, the images came out of the pain and deep sorrow caused by learning of the death of two little girls, Alison (12) and Amélia (6).<br></br> They both drowned when Amélia fell into a swollen river and Alison jumped in to try to save her little sister.<br></br> I learned… <a href="http://visualmusic.ning.com/video/petit-lou"><br /> <img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1942569897?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=160" width="240" height="160" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />The music of this film, composed and interpreted by Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, was born out of a need to exorcise a loss.<br /> Similarly, the images came out of the pain and deep sorrow caused by learning of the death of two little girls, Alison (12) and Amélia (6).<br /> They both drowned when Amélia fell into a swollen river and Alison jumped in to try to save her little sister.<br /> I learned of that sad event while listening to this music, and the two became one.<br /> The film is a feeble attempt at making visible what Yehudi Menuhin so beautifully said: "Each human being has the eternal duty of transforming what is hard and brutal into a subtle and tender offering, what is crude into refinement, what is ugly into beauty, ignorance into knowledge, confrontation into collaboration, thereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life, the servant of love."