The Silent Land
The Silent Land is a journey through a country, Jordan, whose landscape, both geographical and human, is inhabited by a manifold, yet ubiquitous, silence. That is the silence along roads, across valleys and mounts, the history’s silence, the poverty’s one, the silence in the sea, in the snow and then in the desert, the people’s silence, their hospitality’s one, the silence of prudence. The silence all over. The lens is guided by the hearing of a composer, John Cage, who chose silence as the paradoxical keystone of a musical research hinged on a de-construction of sound in pursuit of the natural sound, the silence. The images, blended together with Cage’s scores and notes, build in this manner a place where bodies, natural and not, arrange, silently and respectfully, in reconciliation with the space.