Wedding Songs

“as you flee your body reunited with your beloved drifting, rebuilding worlds together returning to that distance that emerged during the final days of these wedding songs” Nehemia Mota 1598(?) In 16th century Shingly (Kochi, Kerala) Kabbalist Nehemiah Ben Abraham Mota was rumoured to have the power of levitation. This film assembles the ruinous remnants of the places where these and other miracles occurred. His legacy are a series of wedding songs precariously assembled and archived, danced to by an interfaith following who worship him as a village deity. Using celluloid processed by hand, wedding songs is a collaboration with Mota’s light and the body of the film. Super8mm, hand processed colour/black and white, blown up by the artists to 16mm