This is a new one for me, so I had to find out more.
It's a Canadian short film that started production in 2006 and was released in 2012 from Louis Lefebvre and is “a story about the fire at the heart of suffering.”
The title is a reference to The Pet Goat, the book that George W. Bush was reading to the class in Sarasota, FL the morning of the 9/11 attacks.
It has also been said the film takes a critical look at the events of the past decade (2001-2010) that have shaped our world, and visualizes a global-scale spiritual awakening featuring spiritual entities from various cultures across the world.
According to Louis himself in an interview with Webneel, here is where the idea came from:
The film came to me in a visual form. I had been seeing the central character on his boat for a while and it was as if I could no longer avoid him. I needed to know what he had to tell me. I had always been interested in spiritual traditions and philosophies and it’s as if I felt that I would find some sort of resolve in this exploration of my internal landscape using all these universal symbols. I felt that I would be lead to a deeper peace.
Throughout the process I tried not to let my intellect get in the way, choosing to let the images pass through me even if I didn’t fully understand them on a conscious level rather than censoring everything, even if I was a bit shocked by some of the imagery. I followed the story in its visual form. When things made sense visually and rhythmically, I went with that. In the course of doing this work I have found many explanations for all the micro stories and I have had many other people give me various other explanations. I think it works well that way – evoking different things for different people.
Having said that, the story is clearly about the crumbling away of the hierarchical world based on control and the rising up of the spiritual man, awakening to his divine nature, free of intermediaries.
This is a new one for me, so I had to find out more.
It's a Canadian short film that started production in 2006 and was released in 2012 from Louis Lefebvre and is “a story about the fire at the heart of suffering.”
The title is a reference to The Pet Goat, the book that George W. Bush was reading to the class in Sarasota, FL the morning of the 9/11 attacks.
It has also been said the film takes a critical look at the events of the past decade (2001-2010) that have shaped our world, and visualizes a global-scale spiritual awakening featuring spiritual entities from various cultures across the world.
According to Louis himself in an interview with Webneel, here is where the idea came from:
The film came to me in a visual form. I had been seeing the central character on his boat for a while and it was as if I could no longer avoid him. I needed to know what he had to tell me. I had always been interested in spiritual traditions and philosophies and it’s as if I felt that I would find some sort of resolve in this exploration of my internal landscape using all these universal symbols. I felt that I would be lead to a deeper peace.
Throughout the process I tried not to let my intellect get in the way, choosing to let the images pass through me even if I didn’t fully understand them on a conscious level rather than censoring everything, even if I was a bit shocked by some of the imagery. I followed the story in its visual form. When things made sense visually and rhythmically, I went with that. In the course of doing this work I have found many explanations for all the micro stories and I have had many other people give me various other explanations. I think it works well that way – evoking different things for different people.
Having said that, the story is clearly about the crumbling away of the hierarchical world based on control and the rising up of the spiritual man, awakening to his divine nature, free of intermediaries.