Director: Urban Gad / Cast: Asta Nielsen, Robert Dinesen / Release Date: 1910 / Denmark / Length: 37’ / Meditation: Canan Balan / Presentation: Karola Gramann & Heide Schlüpmann / Electronic music: Kutsal Bilgin
We aim to integrate silence with the present-moment awareness created among the audience through motion pictures, and the influence that takes us by expanding time into now and beyond our current space. The interaction between the meditation and what we see on the screen takes us on a journey through depths and delicacy of consciousness. Offering the audience a rather different experience from already sound films, “silent” films are quite convenient to allow us into a conscious muse and a stream of images with a music accompanying them. In meditation, we can feel more the silent cinema’s references to the medium that create awareness of what they watch with a visual appeal in the audience, and its smoothly streaming motion.