November 2009
2 posts
“I had the story bit by bit, from various people, and as generally happens in...”
– Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Opening Lines
This is the opening line from Ethan Frome and even though the story itself doesn’t resonate with Immersion this line is very apt in consideration of an endangered language. When there is wholescale loss speech you can almost imagine the ghost like whispers of long forgotten phrases which may have been said or things that might have been done.
As it is the last couple of weeks have been very...
October 2009
8 posts
“do nothing”
“Document the language”
“revitalise the language”
– Immersion
Video Art
Here is the scene from the script describing Lema looking across the street.
EXT: STREET IN NORTHERN QUARTER
Lema looks across the street
(Dream like sequence, hypnotic
and slow )
A woman sets up a wooden block, a paint brush and a jar of
water. She paints characters onto the wood block with water.
They fade and disappear. She does the same onto a shop
window. These characters also seem to...
Promotion and Discovery →
“Sometimes I dream in many languages at once.”
“Black Rhinoceros”