Melodi Var Öngel
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Looking for a Car Like That
In January of 2017, Melodi Var Öngel came to Maine and collaborated with Jillian Galloway on this documentary song about a vintage Volvo. The summer before, Jillian had seen the Volvo with a for sale sign on the side of the road in Acadia. Now here it was winter, but that Volvo remained on her mind. As the song reveals, Jillian has her own sense of what’s important.
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Collateral Damage
Brussels, Belgium: Sacha De Keizer (on the left in the photo) grew up negotiating a French home life and a Flemish school life. Additionally she found herself acting as “a third wheel” confidant in her parents deteriorating marriage. They divorced, and and she lost her family, her home, and even her loyal dog Happy. She says, in an understatement, there was “Collateral Damage.”
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My Dad, Your Dad
Nara Souri reaches out to a half-sibling she has never met and reflects on her changed relationship with her dad.
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Stare at the Ground
Camila searches for a friend group that has no borders of culture and nationality.
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What is She Saying
Malika Bakayoko’s mother and father come from different tribes, with different languages. Their language in common was French, so that is what she learned at home and school. Now she longs to feel comfortable with her tribal families, but she cannot even talk to them. She must always turn to her father and say, “What is she saying?”
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Patates Kamyonunda (On the Potato Truck)
“One of the policemen comes
And pushes the potato cases
I resist against the cases
I silence my children
Thank god, they don’t find us”
Suli and I
Androulla tells of Dali, her home town, where her house was between a church and a mosque. A documentary song for the Cyprus Peace-Music Project.
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