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Recording the world with the detachment of a meditating monk – with a so-called Mirror Mind – viewing things as they are, with no personal emotions or desires projected onto them.
This video explores the complex relationships between looking and listening – the seen, and the heard. It tries to record Being – or even – the act of recording… perception.
Recorded in 2000 at Wat Phra Mahathat in Nakhon Si Thammarat in southern Thailand. Initially, my idea was to have the incidental, off-camera dialogue snippets transcribed and translated. However, I learned that the Thai language is fantastically ‘open-ended’ as regards verb inflection – which made translation into English subtitles almost impossible. Since this difficulty of translation resonates well with the intention of the video, I decided to make the Thai subtitles part of the image. Remastered in HD from the DV-PAL source footage. This video is part of a larger work called – The Bodies of Nobodies.