What begins as a yearning for freedom can become something quieter and more radical – the recognition that freedom may not depend on our limitations, wounds or circumstances disappearing. In the stillness, another possibility can emerge. Not free from. Free with.
‘It happens with people. It happens in solitude. It happens in the midst of incredible busyness. And incredible stillness.’ Might you take a step towards a contemplative life. A meditative life. A life of quiet and courageous transformation.
Over the years, each subject who sits in front of the camera starts the same way. From stillness. It is the way to have what is spoken, spoken from a different origin point. A profound and universal place, useful to the evolution of Us. These are regular pieces from a series made from these beginning moments before any word has been spoken.
Be still and know that I am god. Be still and know that I am. Be still and know. Be still. Be.
Speaking from the threshold of near-death, cancer, loss, and renewal, this is not a film about achievement. It is a film about what life reveals when achievement is no longer enough, and slowing down becomes grace.
A reconnection to nature, to each other and to life itself is how the voice that humanity now required will find us. This film is about a very different possibility of our relationship with the land.