motiroti WhatCounts? Zero Migration

Zero Migration is a motiroti commission for WhatCounts?

"Around 1000AD the remarkable cipher 0 arrived in Christian Europe: brought by Arab scholars.

It was conceived in India.

Around 2000AD The Times ran a series: the 10 most important documents of the last millennium.

The Rules of Cricket featured. Apart from a footnote on Avicenna, nothing was said of the Indian or

Arabic foundations of science.

We were celebrating the year 2000, not the year MM.

I was enraged.

Serves me right for picking up The Times I suppose.

Also around 1000 AD, Ibn Al-Haytham invented the pinhole camera, and explained why the images were upside down.

In a camera, information/light passes through a circle, a puncture, into darkness: bringing one world into contact with another.

Nick Rehman came to Europe in 1958, from Yemen. His family came from India. We interviewed

him 53 years later, just after the census. The man on screen is his son."

David John Norton
A performer, theatre producer, music maker , DJ and a father.

CREDITS
The Voice: Naguib (Nicky) Rehman, The Actor: Dean Rehman, The Dancer: Rhiannon Morgan, Music: James Williams Camera: Anne Siegel, Editing & Post Production: Stephen Hanks, Audio Mastering: Keir Stewart at Inch Studios, Still Photography: Jorge Lizalde. Conceived, Directed & Produced by David John Norton.

THANKS
Mavis Rehman, John Ruddick, Tim Short, Rowan Talbot, Ricky White, Ali Zaidi, dotMOV, Milgi, motiroti, Tantrwm

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[galanomata]

Rhiannon Morgan :) excellent performance...