Jorinda / A Cherry On Top , 2014

Jorinda / A Cherry On Top Music: The Knife © Rabbit Records Director: Liselotte Wajstedt ©2014 My Homepage: www.liselottewajstedt.com This Music video on 9 minutes is a part of my main project Jorinda's Journey (16 min) The film takes place in a magnificent landscape with high mountains. During her journey Jorinda meets resistance in the guise of a snow storm and she is almost frozen to death. But the real enemy is within Jorinda herself. She has to find her own inner strength. She has to take charge of her life. The project was inspired by Ann-Marie Ljungberg's book Resan till Kautokeino (The Journey to Kautokeino) Jorinda's Journey is a feminist film in which I want to give a young girl a voice! My inspiration: Butoh dance and Sami joik Butoh and the Sami joik hold a great deal in common, despite the geographical distance and cultural difference between them. You don't dance a dance about something nor do you joik about something. Both in butoh and the joik you step closer to the theme, allowing it to fill you, just dancing it, emptying your ego and allowing whatever you want to express to fill you. You dance something, e.g. a tree, or a form or an emotion. "Butoh means 'Step in a ritual', Butoh are the screams never screamed, The untrodden paths". A joik has a circular form. You don't joik about something, you joik it. You empty yourself, allowing whatever you want to joik to fill you. You dedicate the joik to a person or a place. You joik to remember. You can also joik a longing. Jorinda's Journey is a feminist film in which I want to give young girls a voice! The whole project is in three parts: 16 min Fiction 9 min music Video Dance film 3:54 min