Seek Wisdom by Praxis Field - Dave Searby Mason

This film is an entry in the University of Western Australia's machinima competition called "Seek Wisdom", (which is the University's motto). Images, film and music were by me. It features a wonderful poem by Jane Hirsch...

This film is an entry in the University of Western Australia's machinima competition called "Seek Wisdom", (which is the University's motto). Images, film and music were by me. It features a wonderful poem by Jane Hirschfield (with kind thanks : reproduced at the end of this note). Sims and works featured (in random order) by, Fuchsia Nightfire, Claudia222 Jewell, FreeWee Ling, Jo Ellesmere, Soror Nishi, Marcus Inkpen, Megan Prumier, Spartacus, Silver Velvet, SpeciesK514, Felix Shepherd, Soundsmith Kamachi - if I have missed anyone off, please let me know. It is based on content from the site www.praxispath.co.uk.works best with headphones"The Envoy"One day in that room, a small rat.Two days later, a snake.Who, seeing me enter,whipped the long stripe of his body under the bed,then curled like a docile house-pet.I don't know how either came or left.Later, the flashlight found nothing.For a year I watchedas something -- terror? happiness? grief? --entered and then left my body.Not knowing how it came in,Not knowing how it went out.It hung where words could not reach it.It slept where light could not go.Its scent was neither snake nor rat,neither sensualist nor ascetic.There are openings in our livesof which we know nothing.Through themthe belled herds travel at will,long-legged and thirsty, covered with foreign dust. - Jane Hirschfield