Winter Family
Israeli artist Ruth Rosenthal and musician Xavier Klaine met in Jaffa in 2004. Since then, they've been wandering the world, from New York to Paris, from Jerusalem to Lotharingia, and composing music. They have recorded three albums since 2008, but they also like to work with other artists, performers, composers, choreographers, videographers, or photographers. Their first documentary play, Jerusalem Cast Lead, won the Festival Impatience award in Paris in 2011, before being shown at the Festival d'Avignon in 2012 and elsewhere. In 2010, they were awarded a grant by the Villa Médicis-Hors les murs, and left for New York to begin their research inspired by Jean Gottmann's “Iconography and Circulation”. They decided to settle there and ended up spending two years in Brooklyn's Caribbean neighbourhood. Active in the life of the local community, they collected images, texts, and sounds. At the Festival d'Avignon in 2012, they composed the music for Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Arthur Nauzyciel, and came up with the idea for a concert they called Brothers, with texts in Hebrew and in English read over an organ in the temple Saint-Martial. They now live in Tel-Aviv.
