Story Vid's Literary Music Videos

No one needs to be reminded of how much hand-wringing there’s been in the past decade over questions on literature’s place in the 21st century. Philip Roth or some other old white dude predicts the death of the novel almost as frequently as radio evangelists predict the apocalypse. Israeli writer Etgar Keret, however, sees changes in our culture as exciting creative opportunities, not causes for dismay. He’s teamed up with Dov Alfon, former editor-in-chief of Israel’s leading English-language newspaper, to create Story Vid, a cultural initiative that incorporates video and audio to bring the short story to a new online...  read more

Emergent: Goran Dukic

Most people are afraid to say the word “suicide” in polite company, not to mention making a film that engages the subject directly. But first-time feature filmmaker Goran Dukic had no reservations about adapting Etgar Keret’s novella Kneller’s Happy Campers—the story of...  read more