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Middle of the Moment

Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel

Middle of the Moment

independent | DMOM 01-V | 1995

VIDEO (VHS NTSC stereo en) 42.00 CA$ [?]

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Performer: Fred Frith
Filmmakers: Nicolas HumbertWerner Penzel

The essence of any experience, any moment, is to be found where people are in most intense contact with the place they occupy. And, paradoxically, it is through a nomadic existence that one occupies a space the most intensely. Whether the nature of this nomadism is largely physical, as for the wandering tribes that travel the South Sahara and Cirque O or rather abstract, as for American philosopher and poet Robert Lax, is not so important. What the people portrayed in this documentary share is that their nomadic disposition, which strips life down to its bare essentials, makes them into completely centred human beings. They are not stuck in life’s cycles but co-exist with them, partaking in them with a freedom that is unknown to most of us.

Film makers Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel travelled through Europe and Africa with these very different nomads for around two years. Resisting the lure of nostalgia of any kind they have created a film form, a cinepoem as they call it, in which the freedom on the nomadic life resonates from each individual shot as from the film as a whole. Far from being a simple comparative study of nomadic lifestyles, middle of the moment is a nomadic adventure itself. It is lyrical in mood but goes beyond the merely admirable in its associations. It is not afraid to stay in one place, but also knows how to travel on to the next. The film makers have used their equipment and findings as imaginatively as the nomads they met use theirs, in their daily lives.

--Miram Van Leer

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