one minute past - trailer
Our journey to create One Minute Past began with Lethe, the river of oblivion, at whose source poppies and wild flowers grow. Having started with oblivion, the non-existing to ease the pain of contact with others, the project began to take shape. We discovered that Lethe was one of the five rivers of Hades, the underworld.
The idea of five rivers became captivating and we found ourselves excavating Greek mythology and getting more and more drawn into how this place, Hades, could be imagined. The underworld where we all will go. Death - the end of things, of me, of us - unavoidable and yet, when acknowledged, potentially life enhancing.
These starless rivers possessed their own qualities and in describing them visually, the sense of a journey, a moving towards something, became more real. Using water as a metaphor allowed us to attempt to describe what is not imaginable. But what was it that we were moving towards, trying to imagine? Was it death or the fear of death which for many is the utter terror or altered states in order to escape a reality that is too painful? My heart aches. The music created the atmosphere and space both of not knowing and of awareness of these changes in states of mind; the falling, the floating, the turbulence, the calm.
One Minute Past, the movement of time - you are here and then you aren’t. Either way.