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Moment Forever, 2010
Country: UK
Director: Tereza Stehlíková
(performed by the orchestra, Royal College of Music)
Running time (in minutes): 7
"Let us hold this moment forever, love, hatred, by whatever name we call it, this globe... Forests and far countries on the other side of the world are in it: seas and jungles; the howling jackals and moonlight falling upon some high peak where the eagle soars. Happiness is in it and the quiet of ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with paper knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent." (from The Waves by Virgina Woolf)
Inspired by Virgina Woolf’s The Waves, and originally conceived for projection live with an orchestra, Moment Forever seeks, like Woolf’s Modernist masterpiece, to fuse the transient encounters of the lived present with the timeless realities that underpin our experience. In a journey across spaces both built and topographic, aerial and earthed, the film makes its way with a luminous inevitability to the shore of the ocean from which all has come, and to which all, in its own manner, returns.
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