Rites of Resistance

The buddhist master Dōgen writes: “When bearing a child, do parent and child emanate together? (…) You should study and penetrate how the time when parent becomes child is the practice and realization of bearing a child.”
My transformation from child to parent was like an endless cycle of resistances, including going from digital filmmaking into the underworld of laboratory based work. Every obstacle possible came my way and I embraced them all.
The writing that accompanied me on this journey ended up becoming the film itself: writing as film/film as writing, image as text/text as image. The relentless flow of life passing through projected light…