A strange landscape,
My own house.
Strange sounds all around.

A new beginning.
A new life.
Today.

Strange thoughts,
From a stray mind,
Running wildly
In my head.

Sounds and figures,
Form dissolve,
I simply wish,
For silence.

(200th post, I guess I should celebrate or something )

A short but powerful video, really makes you think.

Last Day Dream [HD] from Chris Milk on Vimeo.

“Last Day Dream”

a man watches his life pass before him

Quicktime version

Produced for the 42 Second Dream Film Festival

Beijing China 2009

www.42×42.com

Written and Directed by Chris Milk

Produced by Samantha Storr

Associate Producer Brad O’Connor

Music Chris Milk

Photography Chris Milk

Editor Livio Sanchez

Production Designer Matthew Holt

Wardrobe Stylist Lydia Paddon

Makeup & Wardrobe Molly Paddon

Production Assistance Jason Baum

Production Assistance Clint Caluory

Telecine Dave Hussey

Sound Design Eddie Kim

Shot entirely on Lensbaby Lenses and Canon 5D Mark II SLR Camera

Birth, death,
Calm and stillness,
Movement and change,
Never and now.

Everything flows,
Everything crumbles,
Reassembles itself,
Always, and never the same.

Attending a celebration of life for a book of erotic poetry in a gallery where I’m surrounded by pieces on child AIDS and the briefness of a life born with the seeds of death.

Aren’t we all in the same situation, celebrating life unaware we are dying from the very instant we are born?