EVERY DAY FOR 30 YEARS, NANCY WOULD SIT OUT ON THE STREET CORNER AND WATCH THE SUNSET is a single a single take film shot just as the sun sets on the summer solstice.

A durational meditation performed by four teenagers as they replicate an activity first established by my former neighbor Nancy.
In replicating this practice with a group of teenagers rather and an older individual, there is the suggestion of a fundamental relationship between the practice of perennial astronomic observation and the cultivation and evolution of human culture.
The transition between day and night echoes the transition from contemplating ones future to contemplating ones past.

The street corner the point of convergence for the evolutionary agencies of our social intersections.

The propagation of the singular into the plural.

The cyclical orbits of our spheres leavens our generationally maturing human culture.

The sunset draws our intimate existential entanglement with nature into resonant focus.
This work pays homage to both Nancy and the inspiration of her daily ritual; and to the perennial human tradition of using the contemplating of the cosmos as an axis for orientating ourselves within physical and metaphysical space and time; within personal and social modes of engagement; within the here and now, between our pasts and our futures.


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http://www.circuit.org.nz/blog/circuit-cast-episode-66-an-interview-with-sam-hamilton