A Ghost Story - An Interview with Director David Lowery
The beauty of the poetic film is its ability to wash over us, to whisk us away to transcendent places where we can view the universe through a new set of lenses, a fresh perspective that eclipses our mundane understanding of our visceral, earthbound expressions of what it means to be human. We have been programmed to read narrative into film, but just like the spiritual experiences provoked by classical concerts at symphonic halls, there are sublime encounters we can have wit
Deep Listening and the Prophet Storyteller
What was the first thing that came to mind when you saw that word “prophet” in today’s blog title? Based on our society's half-baked understanding of world religions and the depictions of prophets in Hollywood films, many of us probably regard these hermit-type characters as nothing more than delusional outcasts, convinced that they can see into the future, forecast apocalyptic phenomena, and make predictions about how the events of tomorrow are going to unfold. We tend to re
