For the Shipwrecked
I float for what seems like hours in the sea. Focusing my camera on the nothing, here, while we are here - in the vast expanse of no edges. There is nothing to film but being here. No action shots. No fast cars. No helicopters. No heart twanging sound track to distract you from you being you in this vast expanse of life we have.
I often flip my films upside down, to question the concept of the ‘right’ way up, and also because we humans see things afresh when upside down - as if for the first time, using Beginner’s Mind as in Zen Buddhism. Maybe we are all shipwrecked all the time and fool ourselves that we are the right way up and not at all shipwrecked.
This film has been shown all over the world, and been in museum exhibitions, film and art festivals.