It’s the line I’ve included under Soul Biographies.
I have an idea that an ability to see with clarity and without judgement enables us to recognise the experience of our own lives. Rather than think that we do, and push uphill to somewhere we are not really certain that we want to be.
And I have this idea that it is our ability to see each other with clarity that would probably fix all we believe we need to fix.
The haunting short film - ‘a window to the soul’ - might offer an insight into the possibility of such clarity.
The film introduction tells of the highly unusual approach to making this one. Possibly a first in any film-maker’s book.
FILM INTRODUCTION The anonymous character in this film was sat at the back of a film screening event. The instant we met, I knew that I had to film her. Or more to the point I had to film her eyes.
So I asked. And she said ‘of course’. A few years ago I am not sure I would have acted on such a forward & perhaps socially unusual thought. And then it became more unusual.
originally posted on monday9am.tv on 5th October 2007.
When one cares to look in that certain fashion, there exists a lightness beyond obvious description. Beyond the words that grace the usual labels.
Where we have been there exists a pace of life that to the casual observer might seem unambitious. But perhaps, just perhaps there is more wisdom in that steady pace than we might first consider. The pace in no hurry to get anywhere else but where it is.
Off to the Pacific Coast soon in search of a fisherman I believe might fit the legend that so many have heard. The fisherman whose simplicity confuses the ‘consultant’.
