Incidental Images

Well, the one thing I got out of breaking my arm and spending time at home was another video. I had a series of material left from last year's Italy trip which I was dying to use for another video for some time now. So I finally sat down and put the whole thing together.

The video is called 'Not To Touch the Earth' can be found here.

Featuring an unsuspecting Japanese tourist encountered in the dome in the town of Spoleto in Italy, the video incorporates a series of sequences shot on the island of Elba, in the region of Umbria and in Florence. It can be seen as something of a corollary piece to the previous video, Liquid Light, in that it is also about movement - but here, it is a less peaceful movement.

The music is the track Coro by Ryuichi Sakamoto, from his album Chasm.

The words are taken from the Doors' song Not to Touch the Earth. This is an excerpt from The Celebration Of The Lizard, a 133-line poem by Jim Morrison that was going to take up the first side of the album Waiting For The Sun. However, in the end only a part of the 24 minute song was put on the album.