Who Knows Where the Time Goes ? - Michel Griffin

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A short film which tries to compress half a century into 4 minutes. With grateful thanks to http://www.youtube.com/user/BeechSundowner for the bird sequences, to Amy Caldwell - http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=244895 or http://www.myspace.com/amycaldwellmusic - for the fabulous singing, to http://www.youtube.com/user/RayWilliamJohnson for making me laugh and to Herbert Paganini for 'Gracias a la Vida' .

It should be noted that Michel and Amy have never actually met: their collaboration on this song was via the Net.

I guess any attempt to squeeze 50 years of world history into four minutes is bound to be very subjective, but here are the references made in this film:

1959 - Atom bomb trials in Arizona
1960 - Sharpeville massacre
1961 - Martin Luther King - 'I have a dream'
1962 - Nelson Mandela arrested
1963 - J F Kennedy assassinated
1965 - The Beatles
1968 - Man lands on the Moon
1968 - Mini-skirts
1968 - Student riots in Paris
1960's/70s - Vietnam war
1960's/70s - Women's Lib
1969 - Golda Meir's calls for negotiated peace for Israel
1976 - Riots in Soweto intensify calls for Nelson Mandela's release
1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini sweeps to power
1979 - As does Margaret Thatcher
1980 - John Lennon shot
1984 - Indira Ghandi assassinated
1987 - Reagan & Gorbachev sign arms reduction treaty
1989 - Berlin wall falls
1989 - A lone student braves Red Army tanks in Tiananmen Square
1990 - Nelson Mandela finally released after 27 years
2001 - Attack on the WTC in New York
2003 - Saddam statue falls in Baghdad, Iraq
2009 - Obama inauguration

And here are the lyrics to sandy Denny's immortal classic, which provides the soundtrack:

Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving;
Ah - how can they know it's time for them to go ?
Before the winter fire, we'll still be dreaming:
I do not count the time.

Who knows where the time goes ?
Who knows where the time goes ?

Sad, deserted shore - your fickle friends are leaving;
Ah but then you know, it's time for them to go.
But I will still be here - I have no thought of leaving:
I do not count the time.

For who knows where the time goes ?
Who knows where the time goes ?

And I'm not alone, while my love is near me;
I know it will be so, until it's time to go:
So come the storms of winter and then the birds in spring again -
I do not count the time.

For who knows where the time goes ?
Who knows where the time goes ?

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[ronboy51]

This has to be one of your best videos to date.

[Nicodimdom]

Par contre je ne t'ai pas vu en vieillard et pourtant j'ai (re)visionné jusqu'à la fin. Il me semble que la dernière image, c'est tout simplement TOI ...maintenant, non? ;-))

Longue vie donc.

Dom

Dom

[Nicodimdom]

Bonne année Michel à toi et aux tiens. Merci de ce joli cadeau. C'est une de tes plus belles chansons (bon, c'est vrai que je ne les connais pas toutes mais elle est ...!!!). Je ne voudrais pas utiliser un mot galvaudé qui peut fâcher en disant que c'est "professionnel" alors je dirai simplement "brillant" La mélodie, le chant, j'adore et cette vidéo, c'est vraiment pro. BRAVO encore et merci.

Dominique

[Nicodimdom]

Bonne année Michel à toi et aux tiens. Merci de ce joli cadeau. C'est une de tes plus belles chansons (bon, c'est vrai que je ne les connais pas toutes mais elle est ...!!!). Je ne voudrais pas utiliser un mot galvaudé qui peut fâcher en disant que c'est "professionnel" alors je dirai simplement "brillant" La mélodie, le chant, j'adore et cette vidéo, c'est vraiment pro. BRAVO encore et merci.

Dominique

[coolyman46]

Bonne Année 2011 Michel !

Que la musique continue à nous faire voyager ,par delà les frontière du réel , sur les chemins , dans le ciel .

Merci et longue vie de joies remplie !!!

enerJ.P

[leilapasturat]

One of the better videos we have seen of Michel's--and that's saying something!

Leila and Don

[frenchie46360]

Comme d'habitude, tout y est ! Qualité de la vidéo, émotion dans l'interprétation...

Tu finis bien l'année et commences fort celle qui démarre.

En ce qui me concerne je vais suivre l'avis éclairé de Michel et m'entraîner un peu sur cette très jolie mélodie.

[rockinfortheplanet]

A wonderful song and film, congratulations to you all for creating such a superb piece of inspiring work. Happy New Year and keep up the fantastic music and art in 2011.

[raymondcrooke]

Wonderful video. Thank you for sharing it. All the best for 2011.

[Balzineu]

Bravo Michel et Amy!

Cette chanson est magnifique et authentique!

Quelle émotion!