What Shall We Do With These Buildings?
Slovo Residency Kharkiv
Film poster for Ukrainian/English short What Shall We Do With These Buildings? by Jonathan Ben-Shaul and Louis Norris.
A documentary dance film exploring Kharkiv’s Soviet architectural heritage and the dynamic impact these structures have on the people who live with them. This project was the culmination of Jonathan’s artistic residency with Kharkiv Literature Museum. Jonathan was the director of the project and was mainly responsible for interviewing and choreographing while Louis shot and edited the film.
Director & Choreographer - Jonathan Ben-Shaul
DOP & Editor - Louis Norris
Top to bottom: final poster; unused draft designs
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloth Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats, 1899