Eight Views: First Variation
2025
Video (MiniDVD)
7"03'
Formal Experiment (MiniDVD Recorded); short film based on a sequence of poems that utilise the "Eight Views" theme and approach predominant in 11th Century Chinese (and latterly Japanese) poetry.
"Eight Views: First Variation" is based on the first variation on this "Eight Views" theme, written by the filmmaker, and quoted in full below:
Eights Views: First Variation
return home from a distant city – travel along a shore road
October mist hides a large wall
wild birds ascend from sheltered trees
a night fire is lit – smoke rises
the sound of a nearby stream
descent from mountain to a fishing village – it rains – an unfamiliar bell chimes
the Autumn moon glows
the sea rolls forward – a memory of a thousand boats.