River Mantra

Year:

1997

Duration:

6:27

Recorded:

1996

A meditative, observational video from the banks of the mighty Ganges river at Varanasi, India. Recorded in June, 1996. Because one sequence features a floating, wrapped, corpse; this video is recommended for mature viewers only.

I have made many videos of this genre because it is my total conviction that quiet, observation of the world around us, offers a powerful antidote to the superficial, distracting, misanthropic everyday we find ourselves in. More on this later…

Postscript

If you enjoy this video, there are plenty of others which I can recommend:

Boxing Day – filmed in Coober Pedy in the Australian desert.
Including Two Pans and an Ice-cream Van – Filmed in Borneo.
Lot 22 – filmed in Australia.
Kites – also filmed in India.
Crossing Paths at the Edge of Emptiness – filmed in India.
Nike – filmed in Paris, France.