I saw this for the first time tonight and watched it several times in pure joy. I loved watching the people in it, I’ve always had a thing for beefy people and skinny people (yes, prob should have a shrink look at that. lol) Catch the fellow at the far right in Brisbane. Or the little children so completely on joyous fire, or the ‘give it everything you’ve got no matter who’s looking’ people throughout; sometimes even the tribal people are more stately than the moderns.
As I watched this and listened to its ‘heart music’ soundtrack, i wept. It’s an intractible time in my life. I cried because humanity in all its variations is so so beautiful, so lush, like the variety of colored songbirds flying all throughout the world. If there’s such a thing as happiness momentarily breaking into the cave of grief, it came from this little film for me tonight.
I hope the film will make you laugh in a good way. For however you are tonight, for whatever road you are on… let this be good traveling medicine for you.
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CODA
The fellow in the film is Matt. I muse tonight how he traveled the world for weeks and months to condense all these gatherings of souls into this tiny film. Time in a bottle.