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My parents and other family emigrated from India and started a life in a new country and never moved back. The fictional script in this video plays with the idea of dreaming of a new life in a new place, yet with past memories sometimes asserting themselves. It questions the perfection of new rooms and new things, and of becoming more 'established.' It uses a fictional dream and a blind teacher who sees back to childhood to show that we're all…
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My husband and I have moved since our teens over 50 times, only about six of those times together in the last five years. Packing and unpacking seem as natural and inevitable as seasons. And yet moving takes its toll. Caught up in the financial crisis around 2009, we knew we would lose a house we considered a place we were still arriving at. I turned to the pages of Hafiz one day, doing f’al with the text: asking for an answer in whatever ghazal…
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A Sufi teacher/boat-builder weaves thoughts on engagement, work and beauty while steaming and laying planks for the restoration of the oldest sailboat on the West Coast. In “On Doing,” we see Bob Darr at work while hearing him expertly weave together thoughts on boat-building and work, multi-tasking and the Now, and Reality and Beauty. These scenes are special not just for Bob’s presence but also for the images here of the hands-on restoration…
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When I saw this dogwood in bloom last year I was smitten, immediately drawn in by the blossoms and the light they seemed to hold like translucent cups. Not unlike, I thought, the cup of the heart that Hafiz drinks from in his poems. The blooming of a single tree seemed akin to the blooming of a single poem, with the ‘literary’ process mirroring the creativity that is already happening in the world. As Bob Darr says here , the lines of the poem are…
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‘On Patronage’ is a small (miniature –if you will!) visual bonbon. In its bite-sized way it deals with patronage of the artist, as represented in Hafiz’s time and in my own. Both of us needed one, in other words! In 14th century Persia the poet performed at the court of the ruler, his patron and protector. The poet’s place here was prestigious but also part of the regular entertainment that included wine, food, dancers and music. The setting…
Travels With H
In Travels with H: Hafiz in a New World, Oakland filmmaker sees contemporary California life anew through the poetic lens of a Persian mystic poet from the 14th century. See these short video 'postcards' of her travels through the West with verses from the East.
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