The Black Chant

Machinima based on the poem by the portuguese poet, José Régio, "Cântico Negro", with a free translation to English.

Girl & Voice - Veronika Garzo

Music by
(1801) Beethoven- 'Moonlight' Sonata, 1st movement

Executive Producer - Veronika Garzo
Produced & Directed by hadji Ling

Hadji Ling Productions 2010

Filmed in 3d world SecondLife BLACH CHANT
'Come this way' some say with sweet eyes,
Opening their arms, and sure
It could be good if i would listen to them when they say 'come this way'.
I look at them with glazed expression
(eyes filled with irony and fatigue}
And I cross my arms,
And I never go that way

It is my destiny
To create inhumanity
Never to accompany anybody
And to live with the same unwillingness with which i tore my mothers' womb.
No, I won't go that way, I will only go where my own steps take me
If what i seek, none of u can answer, why do you repeat 'come this way'?

I prefere to slip on muddy corners, to be carried on the wind, like rags
To drag my bleeding feet
Than to go that way
If i came to your world was only to deflower virgin rainforest and to draw my feet through unexplored sand
All else i do is worth nothing

Why then are you the ones that would give me axes, tools and the courage to cut down my obstacles?
It runs in your veins, the old blood of your ancestors
And you love the easy way
I love the distant and the mirage,
I love the abysses , the torrents, the deserts.

So go, u have roads
you have gardens and flower beds
you have heritage and roofs,
And you have rules and treatises, and philosophers and wisemen
I have my insanity
I hold it high like a torch buring in the dark night
And I feel foam and blood an chants on my lips
God and the devil are the
ones who guide me, nobody else.

All of you have a father
All of you have a mother
But i , without beginning or end
I was born from the love between God and the Devil.

Ah, don't give me your pitious intentions!
Don't ask me for definitions!
Don't tell me: "Come this way!"
My life is a storm that got loose.
A wave that rose.
one more animated atom
And i don't know which path to follow
I don't know where i am going
I know i am not going that way!

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Chant
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• world
• poetry
• poem
• josé
• régio
• film
• video
• hadji
• ling
• portugal
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• cantico
• negro

[ard770]

I keep returning to this machinima... such a great combination of voice (!), music and video. Thank you!

[hadjipt]

@ard770 Thank you so much for your beautiful words! That voice is trully inspiring and beautiful!

We tried to touch people as it touched us!!

Thank you!

[Dreelamb]

All Thumbs Up! Speechless. Thanks! Blessings, Andree'

[slmoviecom]

WoW! :-)

[Nitwacket]

Love the shadows!

[fuzonacid]

I love shadows. Too bad they kill my computer...lol. Nicely dramatic.. Perfect music for the poem.

[FlorineWriter]

You use the shadow well.nice style! Amazing ^^ GJ

[eVoome]

really nice movie. and also I love that moon light !

awesome

[DoranCarter]

Solemn and moving.

That is such great work Hadjipt, and very well recited Veronica, you conveyed true feeling.

[MsShadowside]

<3 awsome