Meirav Ong

FOR THESE TIMES: THE CULT OF JUDITH | A music video BY WELL OF WILLS COLLECTIVE

About the film

For These Times: The Cult of Judith, produces by Well of Wills, satirizes the disembodying force of patriarchal oppression and celebrates the intersectional allyship of divinely embodied femmes. Inspired by Audre Lorde's “Uses of the Erotic,” a speech given by the black feminist and visionary poet in 1978, this work explores Lorde’s discourse on the liberatory power of the erotic. 

This resistance art/music video is set to an original track, produced by composer Zachary Seman, with lyrics adapted from two sacred texts (The Apochryphal & Psalm 126:5-6). The track incorporates sound bytes from Audre Lorde's speech and begins with Dr. Blasey Ford’s testimonial given at the Kavanaugh hearings (September 2018), reminding the viewer that “as women, we need all the strength we can get,” that liberation is intersectional and bound together, now more than ever. Filmed in Brooklyn, NY in October 2018.