Be witnessed
You sit with John in silence. He asks no questions, and nothing is prepared. When something comes, you speak, and what came becomes a film of your own.
Online €750 · in person €1,750 plus travel
Ask to be witnessedIn John’s words
How he describes the session, in his own voice. Press a face to hear it.
Through an initial joint meditation practice with my film subjects, the invitation is to move through the ego and through the chattering monkey mind. As we then sit in eye to eye contact in an awkward and uncomfortable silence, something gradually happens. And then this sort of magic happens that the person in front of me feels through the silence. We do a meditation together, and then I'm in open eye witnessing behind the camera, not asking any questions. I have told people where they said nothing for forty five minutes, and I've still done an edit on forty five minutes of silence with the shifts of energy that you're picking up. All of that nonverbal is incredibly rich as well. From those who sat
What it was like, said by people John has witnessed, each in the film it comes from.
And I got a sense during this time here that they too could have a rest because there was no need, because I was being fully seen, fully observed for now in this moment and in this space. I'm not only being seen, really, being witnessed in my fullness, in my brightness for the first time without obstacles, without contradictions. Well, it was very interesting the process of, sitting with no intention. I had no, thought about what I wanted to speak about. Absolutely no idea how long I've been here. In this It's a timeless space and that is actually quite a gift to have a timeless space. Je commence à comprendre pourquoi le besoin de silence. Le silence, ce n'est pas rien faire, ce n'est rien dire. Everyone I film, they walk away saying the same thing. They say, I can't believe I shared that piece. I don't even know where that came from. What it is
About an hour and a half: the session, a film of five to eight minutes with music and titles, a transcript, and a debrief of forty-five minutes to an hour.
Online
€750
In person
€1,750 plus travel
Your film is yours. It joins the portraits only if you say yes. Booked by request: write below, and John writes back within a week to find a time.
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