Marie Haddad : Jdita

The official music video for the song, “Jdita”, by Marie Haddad.

Jdita is a small village in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon near where Marie’s father grew up. She wanted to honor him and his heritage by writing this song, and to try to express how she felt when she visited there – that somewhere so faraway and mysterious can also resonate as being completely familiar.
KIND FILMS (the husband and wife team Jake Segraves and Gretchen Bayer) filmed in the Anza-Borrego Desert and Leucadia in California.
For the video, Marie created a book containing ancient illuminated manuscripts. Most of the other artifacts that she “finds” in the sand are actually from Lebanon – the vase, coffee cup, photos, backgammon board, the finger cymbals… even the sugar packet!

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