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It's almost as if Melville created a mechanism of projection, without supplying the film to project onto it. Guy Ben-Ner
Guy Ben-Ner created his twelve-minute Moby Dick in Israel in 2000, the year in which Carlo Adinolfi's One-Man Moby-Dick and Rinde Eckert's And God Created Great Whales premiered in New York. Adinolfi's one-man play and Eckert's two-person opera followed the New York premieres of Ellen Driscoll's Ahab's Wife in 1998 and Laurie Anderson's Songs and Stories of Moby-Dick in 1999. (1) Ben-Ner's home-made video--like Driscoll's amalgam of drama and dance, Anderson's marriage of music and words, and Eckert's fusion of drama and opera--foregrounds a female perspective. His...
