“I felt as though I was meditating with my eyes open.”
“The original photography is stunning, the sounds and music resonating.”
“A Thoreau-like embrace of nature’s simplicity.”
“I appreciate the calmness it evoked.”
“Absolutely beautiful.”
“The world needs to see this.”
Film Overview
Tribute to a Conscious World (54 minutes) is a contemplative, meditative film. No humans appear in this film and there are no spoken words. Using only images of nature and an original soundtrack, the film presents the world’s beauty and intrigue in a mesmerizing way, allowing the viewer to enter a more relaxed state simply by watching the film.
This film was an official selection of the Natourale Film Festival in Germany and the Earth Day Film Fest in California. Experimental Forum also called out this film as an honorable mention. Inspiration for this film came from nature itself, and from the film Baraka (1992) directed by Ron Fricke.
Meditative Technique
The film presents beautiful imagery with a slow pace that lulls the viewer into a relaxed state as the film progresses. You watch, you witness, you observe. Just as in mindful meditation. In this way, the film creates a meditation. But you do not need to know how to meditate. Your sustained observation and the film’s natural meditative technique produce a meditative state.
Emotional Range
The emotions in the film range from isolation to oneness. The film’s main emotional thrust is imparting feelings of awe, reverence, pleasant surprise, uplifting sentiment, and a sense of peace and communion. There are some night scenes, and a few scenes of isolation, giving you that experience. Yet you are uplifted as well, and the film ensures this.
Deeper Concepts | Contemplative Viewing
A few key contemplative themes in the film are: patience, balance, the cycle of life, working with fear of the unknown, anticipation, expectation, subtlety, dark and light, beginning and ending, openness, expansiveness, separation, and oneness. The film can be watched and enjoyed without considering these topics at all, but this is an additional layer of depth for those seeking depth.
Full Effect
What at first may seem like a slow film with no actual story to keep you in suspense turns out to be a deeply rewarding personal experience. You witness nature’s astounding beauty, intricate patterns, and mesmerizing rhythms right in front of you. You feel that, emotionally, and you arrive at a meditative state simply by allowing the film’s slow pace to settle into you.