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This short tape about the highest country in the world is dedicated to the people of Tibet. Mirage, who calls it a poetic and illegal journey, travels a lot, particularly through Asia, and has already made productions about Japan and Nicaragua ('Mirage 1', 1988). In her latest production there is no spoken text. The images show the divisions in Tibet and have only an indirect suggestion of a point of view. Shots of the Chinese army alternate with close-ups of people climbing; the images of an monastery high in the Himalayas and recurring shots of a monk producing a dry slap with all his physical power. Children's eyes dissolve into the stone eyes of defiled sacred statues. Hundreds of prayer papers whirl against a blue sky and on the ground, a small boy busily gathers them up and, against all rules, throws them up in the air again and again.
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Ingrid van Santen
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Dedicated to: The people of Tibet, For: Xenografia Nomad Video-wall project Biennale Venetië 1993, Production: Mirage Productions
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