A Hope to Live: Jesse 1990

I was editing late one night for my day job as a contract video producer when Seattle poet, songwriter Steven Jesse Bernstein called. It was shortly after we d worked together on a video commissioned by Seattle s Center on Contemporary Art. He d signed up for an epilepsy research program at a nearby hospital. It paid 50 a night. While there, he d written a new song and wanted me to tape it before he forgot it. The only thing I had handy was a cheapo VHS camcorder. This is the result.