I Can Be Your Mummy [Yael-Louise Dekel singing]

What does unconditional love sound like, and how does total acceptance look like? In this film love and acceptance are presented through a little girl (Yael-Louise Dekel) who sings to her doll that has lost her family. The girl says to the doll 'I can be your mummy' and 'I would never leave you', offering unconditional love and acceptance, no matter what.

When Yael-Louise (4-year old) was singing one day a few weeks ago, I heard a pure 'diamond-like' voice coming from her, so I quickly grabbed a camera and recorded her singing. Likewise, one day she was dancing at home, and although she would always dance (as children do), that day I saw flashes of joy coming from her dance. I quickly grabbed a camera and filmed her.

Yael's dance and her song were both bubbling with love and joy of just being loved and loving back with no reservation or limits of any conditioning or frameworks. Yael dances as she sings as a direct expression of her feelings through words and body movement. Both are impulsive, intuitive and untutored, coming straight from the heart. Children do not think why they do things, they simply act as they feel or experience, and so Yael dances as she sings as she feels...

I can now see that the film was shot as a direct response to her child-like simplicity and impulsiveness. The room was bubbling over with magic and blurred movement and these are reflected in the blurred images that you can see in the film. I did not plan all this, and in fact I am aware that the quality of the recording is low. This was an impulsive and un-directed recording (in bad light conditions and using home equipment), so I was wondering if it has any worth as a film at all. Yet, since the film directly represents the emotions expressed by Yael, and mirrors the inner state and simplicity that this child projects, I was convinced that the film was valuable, hence I present it online.

Once the recording completed I approached a talented musician and asked him to compose music around Yael's singing. So, the music that accompanies Yael's singing was composed separately, based and inspired by her singing.

I hope this film will remind the viewers to connect to their inner child, and most of all, to remember that we are loved, always, no matter what.

-- Gil Dekel, November 2009.


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Category:

Education

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• can
• be
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• Mummy
• Acceptance
• Unconditional
• Love
• Child
• Innocence
• Spirit
• Impulsive
• Direct
• Inner
• Emotions
• Home
• Bravery
• Honesty
• Joy
• Being
• Simplicity
• Magic
• Expressions
• Feeling
• Emotion
• Word
• Body
• Movement
• Yael-Louise
• Natalie
• Gil
• Dekel