Beat Eucharist Videos
At 2010's Greenbelt Festival, a group of worshippers from Durham, known as Rough Edge, hosted a piece of worship called the Beat Eucharist. It was a celebration of the Eucharist using rewritten liturgy in the style of beat poets such as Ginsberg and Kerouac. The liturgy is a reworking of the Anglican Common Worship Order 1 Eucharist Liturgy together with paraphrases of the gospels and psalms. The whole thing was accompanied by continuous music and video contributing to an intense, immersive worship experience.
This worship idea is the 40 minutes of video that was created for the Beat Eucharist, now hosted on the new EngageWorship Vimeo Channel. The Video explores the idea of journey, tying in with the Greenbelt theme of 'The Art of Looking Sideways'. It begins slowly, working towards the culmination of the worship event, the celebration of the Eucharist, before revisiting all the videos in a collage to finish. The video was all shot in the North East of England, around Durham, Newcastle and Middlesborough. Whilst Rough Edge used the videos for the Beat Eucharist, there is no reason elements of the video could not be used separately for a different purpose. They are made available under a creative commons license, so long as you don't use them to make money, you can use them in any way, for anything.
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The Beat Eucharist Liturgy is available from Proost and the musicis available here on Engage!
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The videos explore the idea of journey through both the Eucharist and the specific liturgy used for the Beat Eucharist. I think your observation is right though, it works as a whole, but perhaps not so well individually. However, the videos could be re-edited for use in a different context!
Andy