Love Story

The main character in this video is again, te papatuanuku, the land. I first encountered this Taranaki rugged high-country landscape at the age of 17 and have sat to watch the sunrise from this peak. These views conjure up erie and romantic memories and so I decided to focus on this sense of the nostalgic as a form of awareness that expects nothing in return. This is the ultimate love story. Love without condition nor for any particular reason. In this sense this video is a hommage to this place but for me it is a hommage to any place which moves us, reminds us of our place in the natural world.


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I chose Brenda Liddiard's song, Box of memories as compliment to the themes of remembering, the passing of time and the loss felt when someone or something is absent.


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See another video where the land is the main character Transit in a green landscape.

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