BLIND LIGHT a film by Pola Rapaport 1 hour, color BACKGROUND Music

Songwriter Laurie Anderson was familiar with my earlier work, BROKEN MEAT. She was the first of several prominent musicians who agreed to lend their music to BLIND LIGHT. Her songs provide the musical theme of the filmmaker's journey through the story. Peter Gabriel, Ms. Anderson's partner on the song "Excellent Birds", quickly followed suit, as did Richard Hell, with his classic punk song "Downtown at Dawn", performed with his band, the Voidoids. The film is capped with Van Morrison's moving and spiritual ballad of emotional healing "Got to Go Back".

Composer Stuart Kollmorgen's original music complements the Romantic sensuality and longing evoked by the Schubert and Granados pieces for piano and trio. Two friends from Capri, architect Franco Della Fermina and photographer Umberto D'Aniello, provide their own arrangements and performances of two classic Neapolitan songs. They also appear in the film as two mysterious men in a local café.