The Woman of the Thousand Voices

Artist and poet Ruth Dorrit Jacoby hears the crying voices of the lost children, victims of the blood cycle and the mourning mothers, calling her to convey their silent scream to the world, to stop the killing, to preserve life, to serve as their mouthpiece. The film exposes an entire hidden world of souls and voices and the artist’s poems which conceal the story of the film, read by her father and mother. This is a long voyage from the land of the dead onto revival and rebirth of the crying, bleeding souls to a new life within us.

“This is an anti war film, against the primordial origin of all wars since the cradle of history, when one man rise up against his brother to kill him and throughout all generations ‘The voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground’ (Genesis IV, 10). God hears the cries, but we are also commanded to hear the voices of blood of all the taken ones and the dead in vain of all times and places, the pages of history are soaked in blood, and this is all still going on.”