None, and each my own

The Night Before Last

This video is about the sense of not belonging foreigners often have from leaving their birth country. Even when they traveled slowly and managed to establish relationships where they live, they always stand out as being different. And when they return to their home country, their new experience has made them different again from the natives. The minute you start living in another country, you will never belong to any place truly again. This can be emotionally draining.

The video tries to illustrate this. I'd like you to see it, in reverse order, the start is the end- the start is the total loss of identity, loss of body, just a final mark on the ground, and then you go back in time retracing the last 24hr, the day, staying and the last night before last.

The marking with the chalk is to mark where the bones are, it is meant to foresee the death that will come and take account of our physical entities. The "landscape art" with twigs is about leaving a unique mark,after death, something humans have always done, by contrasts with the rest of the animal kingdom.

Hell, it's all pretty depressing, but everyone will ask himself or herself all these questions one day or another, well was was my turn. And now I can get on with other things... the next video, I'll try to cheer you up.


The same song

By Susheela Raman

How many roads have I wondered?
None, and each my own
Behind me the bridges have crumbled
No question of return

Autumn leaves like discarded dreams
trampled underneath a tide of careless feet
it's the same song playing
everywhere I go
it's like an army marching right through me.

Nowhere to go but the horizon
where, then, will I call my home?

Summer spent, in the high grass
or just fragments, ransacked memories
dark river snakes, across this murky hall
boatman sings his downstream melodies.

How many roads have I wondered?
None, and each my own
Behind me the bridges have crumbled
where, then, will I call my home?

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Lorene Amet
• Susheela Raman
• Life
• and
• Death
• travelers
• traveling
• foreigners
• home
• nowhere
• nobody
• homeless

[momoshiri]

mira nair used this song in 'the namesake', for the end titles..theres a couple of mistakes in the lyrics..."dark river snakes across this murky heart" and wandered rather tan wondered.rootlessness isn't just about migration...pretty much all city dwellers are rootless if you think about it. even if you stay still the ground is still shifting...

[christschool]

Another fantastic piece. Two camera angles made for some interesting views. I especially like the fire.

[car0lynnn]

what are the lyrics

[judy4ever18]

I've been looking for this song too. I'm glad someone put this song I youtube :D

thank you.

[HiMyNameIzDiaXx]

That's how I found this song. I absolutely love that movie. ^^

[angelctas]

i love this song

[dierachan]

I've been finding this song all over Youtube.

Great video to the song.

=]

[kedlayapooja]

Autumn leaves like discarded dreams

Trampled underneath a tide of careless feet

Its the same song playing

Everywhere I go

Its like an army marching right through me

Nowhere to go but the horizon Where, then will I call my home?

Summer spent, in the high grass

Are just fragments, ransacked memories?

Dark River snakes across this murky hall

Boat man sings his downstream melodies

[yasuakimaru]

This was absolutely beautiful, and insightful. An Art, no doubt.

My parents migrated from Cuba, into Miami, Florida. I'm not so sure the changes were exactly so drastic, since most everyone there was Hispanic.

But I still wonder if my grandmother and great aunts still long to see the country they spent half of their lives in, from birth? Heck, same goes for the rest of my family. All of us who were born here in America are under the age of 23.