Why do sermons or homilies have to be preached, or spoken? After all the spoken word is not necessarily as key as it once was. We became written cultures after aural cultures and since then we have moved on again to become visual cultures. Our worlds are massively full of conscious and unconscious symbols. The symbol that this video was shot, without conscious thought, riding the King streetcar down and onto King Street is not lost on me. I made it over 4 years ago and the soundtrack calls to mind the chorus of the people crying out "his love endures for ever". The phone tones are yhwh - the dialing code for God. This seeks to have the same intents that a conventional (whatever that means) sermon, i.e. to move people to seek change.
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Is the talking head the only way?
at 5:26 PM
Labels: psalms, visual journalling, what's the question?