08-25-11

The Green Dream Way

Four years ago I started creating a film, which was going to contemplate our relationship with nature.

While working on Green Dream I realized that our relationship with nature and my relationship with my work, were suffering from the same problem.

I was trying to create my dream film by imposing the image I had of it, always trying to push it in the direction I thought it should go. Ultimately I was struggling with it, never able to create what I most wanted, a playful dreamlike exploration of our daily interaction with nature.

I stopped trying to control the film, I let it bee. I had to respect the wild spirit of my work, just like I was hoping that people would do with nature. I let it go completely wild and messy…

What was my responsibility, how can I make decisions, why was I even there? It was long months spent in confusion. This did not bring me to where I wanted to go either.

I started realizing that the balance I needed was a constant committed relationship based on love.

In that relationship I had to respect my own inherent nature and the inherent nature of the work. I had to trust and nurture that inherent nature to emerge and unfold into the film I wanted to create.

This is my Green Dream, a world, a big ecosystem, where nature and culture are not worlds apart. I believe that in this ecosystem everyone and everything has its inherent nature. I feel that harmony in the ecosystem can only be reached by allowing that inherent nature to take its own place, and we can only do that through self understanding and relationships based on love.
Green Dream simply shows my journey to that realization, the challenges of trying to create a film by allowing it to unfold in the process, my attempts to find my own place, and in a humble and empowering way to speak with my own voice and take my place in that ecosystem.