Rain

Might we absolve ourselves, to renounce and let it go all
When sunrise lights the soul and illusion just dissolves,
Countless bitter tears are forever lost after fresh rainfall



The desire of a thoughtlessly living man grows like a creeper,
drifts from one life to another, like a monkey looking for fruit in the forest.
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world,
one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome,
then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water...
_______________________________________________Buddha

Forgotten Places

Unlike it happens in the wild nature, when time passes by over the human imprint, often something intriguing inhabits these abandoned places.


By Zac Boyet

Thought it might be the observer, whom while gazing at the emptiness of such an awful shadow, tends to look for some meaning out of its shape.
Maybe because the senseless becomes so unbearable, a past reality asks to be created. Like an instinctive reaction, attempting to calm the lament of the soul.

Dancing Shiva

3½min.

In Hinduism is said that when Shiva, the destroyer, assumes the form of Natraj or the cosmic dancer, enclosed in a burning circle, his energy and enthusiasm destroy the old and create new life.

He´s represented standing on top of a demon, because has the power to conquer evil and spiritual ignorance.

Shiva's dance represents the energy that keeps the universe running and all the joys of creation, death, and rebirth; is also said that if he ever stops dancing, universe will cease to exist.

Learning to Fly

Another time lapse with dancing stars. The illusionary dance around our globe, where the movement and the stillness are at the same time confused and revealed.

Night Beat

Night at Alba, Italy.

By Chad Richard & Gavin Hardkiss

Lapse of Memory

Views from Norther Britain


By Tony Partington

Waves

In New Zealand

Video by Andrei Nica, music by Nouvelle Vague.

Amazing Beauty

Give you a break, take a deep breath and open your view to the beauty. It is really there, just happens sometimes that we need to change our perspective to see it.



Anytime, we may be surprised at the beauty around us. Even we are not used to dayly notice such a miracle, it´s always there, right before our eyes.

Horsehead

A nebula at Orion´s constellation.

Birds

Nature provides examples of the many acting as a whole. Here is an amazing one, enjoy the view of this flock of birds in their mysterious dance.


5½min.

The Clearings

The clearing of the woods is a centre into which it is not always possible to enter.. It is another kingdom that a soul inhabits and guards.. since it seems that the nothing and the void -or the nothing or the void- have to be present or latent continuously in human life. And as to not be devoured by the nothing or by the void you may have to create them in yourself .. I also center the heart because it is the only thing that from within our self gives away sound.. And only because of it, the privileged organisms that have it hear themselves. Only the faraway stars, pures, while they are inaccessible to their colonization, will provide the real image of an identical being to its life; innocent, as if it had only been created without having to be born.. It becomes deaf and mute in times, circunstancially, the heart.. It leaves then all place to the operations of the mind that move that way, without any assistance, abandoned to themselves.

Smell of Desire

Enigma


5min.

Was George Bernard Shaw who said that there are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Volcano

1min.

The elder from this land in Vanuatu says; we live with the volcanoes and we must respect them. If you do so, they´ll bring you good. But if you do evil, then they´ll be coleric. We live with the nature, for sure we can´t be surpised for what we have, because she gives to us. It´s during our youth when we learnt good and evil.



The Stromboli, also known as the Lighthouse of the Mediterranean, has been erupting nearly continuously for over 2000 years. The island of Stromboli is the tip of a massive underwater volcano, growing as the eruptions continue to pump out fresh lava.

Qatsi

Three motion pictures which take a revealing and shocking look at modern life and its imbalances.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe.


Intro - 2min.

Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of balance (1982) - 1h25min.

Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation (1988) - 1h25min.

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002) - 1h25min.

In Albert Einstein's words; the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Gaia

Many mythologies had a view of Earth as a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. 'Gaia' concept draws a connection between survivability of species. It proposes that biosphere and their physical components are closely integrated to form a complex interacting system that maintains the climatic, chemical, physical, geological, and biological conditions on Earth.

'Baraka' is a word that means blessing in many different languages. This film, here embeded, features a number of long tracking shots through various settings without any dialogue. Instead of a story or plot, the movie uses themes and music to present new perspectives.


1½h.

Filmed at 152 locations of 24 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Nepal, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States.

Aurora Borealis

Knott - Northern Lights

Music: Blackmore's Night - The Messenger - 3min.

Life After People

This is a special documentary in which scientists and other experts speculate about how the earth, animal life, and plant life might be like if, suddenly humanity no longer existed.

Speculation is based upon documented results of the sudden removal of humans from a geographical area and the possible results that would occur if humanity discontinues its maintenance of buildings and urban infrastructure.


1½h.

Dragons

The dragon is a legendary creature of which some interpretation or depiction appears in almost every culture worldwide. However the physical description and supposed abilities of the creature vary immensely.

The two most familiar interpretations of dragons are either derived from various European folk traditions, or from the Chinese dragon (lóng,龍,龙). The word "dragon" derives from Greek δράκων (drakōn), "a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon" and that from δρακεῖν (drakein) infinitive active of the verb δέρκομα (derkomai) "I see clearly".


45min.

We'll find dragons at least in the following cultures: Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Philippine, Vietnamese, Aztec, Arabian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Scandinavian, Germanic, English, French, Sardinian, Welsh, Hungarian, Slavic, Siberian, Romanian, Chuvash, Catalan, Asturian, Albanian, Portuguese, Greek, Tatar, Turkish and Lithuanian.

Enjoy here the amazing dragon's world, a fantasy made real (1)(2)

Duelity

Two sides of the same history. Duality, ‘duelity’ here between evolution and creationism, seen as the opposite extremes in which the truth is supposed to lay.

Like a dirty glass, translucent just in a single perspective. Here we might see the universe through; from a point of view driving straight to the dark mind nook where myths can be found.

A short '07 film by Ryan Uhrich and Marcos "Boca" Ceravolo, students in the Vancouver Film School.


3½min.

At duelity.net both videos are available to watch in higher resolution, separately or together.

Stone Angels

Video and song by Tracy Lundgren.