COLD WAR - song and video

One can ask the question are we now entering the second Cold War? In fact many pundits are asking that question, yet most of us have a dim understanding of the first one.

We at Haverstick Films have spent the last few years viewing the first Cold War from a number of angles, starting with the Space Race with Russia, expanding to the square off with the Soviets in the aftermath of WW2 and ultimately into the cloaked dance for power throughout the 50's, 60's and 70's. Our interest is and always has been a specific interest in women's roles. In such a masculine endeavor as wars both cold and hot this woman's footprint, as history has written it, can often be hard to find. But making up over 50% of humanity we are confident it is there, perhaps right even in front of the nose of those who wrote the history books. Most authors, of course, having been male.

So it is fitting that starting off our Cold War series of work is the debut of a song by Michele Mercure. It is a plea in fact for peace yet a dead on analysis of the essence of the standoff. Haverstick Films will be interpreting this song with a music video - the first in our Cold War series, and Michele Mercure is well into the process of recording and mixing her next album of the same subject.

Here is a preview of the song - still a demo version. This song was written by Michele with Lancaster's Patrick White on bass, from NYC Tony Geballe on lead guitar and producing, and Michele co-producing on vocals guitars and synths. I will be posting periodic blogs on this video project.