This video is one of the chapters from my long-form video – The Bodies of Nobodies – which was recorded all over the world during 1999 and 2000.
It took me more than twenty years to complete the final edit – not because of the complexity of the edit – but because of me coming to grips with the implications, complexity, and sheer impenetrability of the footage and the way I had recorded it.
Between 1990 and 2000, my style of video recording and choice of subject matter, had become increasingly reduced. This video is an example of this distillation process.

Like most of my videos in this style, it is definitely not an easy video to watch.
It requires a strong commitment from the viewer to give it time… to watch and listen with a calm, receptive, concentrated mind.
Believe me, these aren’t arbitrary – random – recordings.
Well, actually they are!
As arbitrary or random as the world around us.
But then, the world around us is also totally magical – if we bother to observe quietly – without any preconceptions or expectations.
From many hours of recording, I anguished over every second of my selection of these images and sounds.
I never add, or overdub any audio – sound and picture were recorded simultaneously onto tape.

This has become one of my favourite videos which achieves exactly what I set out to achieve or share.
It was recorded on the 31st of May 2000 in an austere hotel complex in Kamalapura, Karnataka, India. It was incredibly hot – as India always is before the monsoon finally arrives and drenches the land.
My working title for this video was – Waiting for the Cows to come Home.
One of my favourite moments in the video is indeed when they finally make their appearance.
For me, the appearance of the second calf truly has a Groundhog Day feeling to it. Another favourite moment is when the crow responds to the muezzin’s call to prayer; and also, how the call is carried by the wind.
Of course, there are many more reasons why I make these videos; but for now I’ll leave it here.