Cenote (Kaori Oda, 2019) Cenotes—sources of water that in ancient Mayan civilization were said
Cenote (Kaori Oda, 2019) Cenotes—sources of water that in ancient Mayan civilization were said to connect the real world and the afterlife. The past and present of the people living in and around them intersect, and distant memories echo throughout immersive scenes of light and darkness. “I wanted moments where my perspective as a living person became that of the dead… When I was filming the fish too, I was just thinking “oh, there’s fish.” And while they swam in circular movements, I followed them. It wasn’t clear to me while I was filming but when I saw the footage, I realized that my body with the camera was often synchronized with them. They felt like moments when I no longer was an alien object in the space. Nor was the camera. I realized in my edits, that I was gathering footage where I could sense this synchronicity from the image; the inability to differentiate between worlds.”- Kaori Oda, Mubi: Notebook -- source link
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