in
the nature of things |
44
min. 16mm. |
col.
snd. 2011 |
music by Rainer Wiens |
The central image of in
the nature of things is the Forest- sometimes
fearful, sometimes a refuge, always mysterious, and the multiple
associations and myths embedded in it- myths within which we live
and which live within us- our collective history. But, unexpected
moments, intensified fragments, catch us unawares- the present
confronts us.
For Emmanuel Levinas, the face-to-face encounter with another
is a privileged phenomenon in which the person’s proximity
and distance are both strongly felt.
“The face opens the primordial discourse whose first word
is obligation…the face speaks…the first word of the
face is ‘Thou shalt not kill’; it is an order.” Emmanuel
Levinas
in
the nature of things continues my examination of the oppositions
played out dialectically and enmeshed in our experience of living:
culture/nature, lived history /recorded, belonging/destroying,
communal/individual, innocence/danger, young/old, living/dying.
This is an autumnal film – twilight – a film of old
age. Just as Forest is a transitional space, so Old Age is a transitional
time.
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