Rituals, deep earth connections and strong memories are for me the themes of this poem. First I went to film close ups of eyes, I went to an optician and filmed an eye through their machine which gives a very strange effect. The eyes in the film symbolizes the deeper inner feelings that have a strong connection with memories which is a big part of the poem. I wanted to make a combination of black & white photography and film, so you can feel the memory through the film as well as through the poem. — Helmie Stil
The main idea was to focus visual on the scanner, I’ve filmed different angles of the lights of the scanner. And because the poem is readable in different ways I was thinking of doing something with a split screen. So, on one side of the screen you see the light of the scanner, scanning, and on the other screen you see what’s been scanned. I’ve scanned many things that you can’t name and some you can. What I felt in the poem is the emptiness of life, the feeling we should always put names on things instead of just feeling it, that we make things very important while there are many more important things in life. So, the scanner is symbolizing our life, scanning through it. The scans are representing the things we put/are “important” in our lives, like the Great Stapler. I was very surprised and pleased to see what you can do with the scanner visually. An isolation of life, scanning through it. — Helmie Stil
