Tell Me I'm Not Alone

‘In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love’. - Eckhart Tolle

A male figure kneels on a bed of flowers, his back to the viewer he has a strong and powerful presence, almost archetypal in his portrayal of classical male beauty. The Flowers act as a Memo Mori to remind us
of the painful beauty of impermanence. The soundtrack Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirrors in the Mirror) is of reflection and eternity, Interior and exterior space is explored through visuals which are painterly and at times capture a kind of voyeurism much like that shared between an artist and his subject. As the camera abstractedly pans across the young mans body we become lost within a sensual landscape of flesh and hair, broken only by a hand that emerges and slips snake-like into a pair of white briefs. Following a dream-like sequence of stretching and caressing the pace builds momentum and a dialogue emerges between the disrupted imagery of a powerful dance and the protagonist’s urge for violence. As his body crashes to the floor violence gives way to emotional fragility. Raw and physically exhausted his once powerful presence has been replaced with a more fragile beauty. We are finally left with the striking image of the young man, childlike fetal and feral, surrounded by desecrated petals.