Kokoro is for Heart

Kokoro is for Heart features poet Gerry Shikatani and explores the relationships surrounding language, image and sound, set to the backdrop of a gravel pit. When I got the footage back from the lab I was disappointed because of the periodic flipping of the image. After screening the footage several times I realised that the malfunctioning camera rendered the filmed-nature, unnatural the same questions surface: what is nature? what is natural?
” Made at the gravel pit, down the road, Gerry gestures in visual and sound, sometimes coming to meet the lens, sometimes out of the picture … a stone … a feather, his script/poems floating like big ships in a puddle. The irregular, yet rhythmic sound of the camera’s inner workings echoes Gerry’s phrasing, and re-phrasing.” – P.H.