2003
3 minutes 10 seconds
black and white Super 8 and video
This film explores a woman's creativity,
the power of water in the high desert and searching for personal release.
Emily Dickinson's poem is sung by the young opera singer Eleanor Ranney.
Melanie grew up in New Mexico on Sweetwater Ranch and this film was shot
nearby at the Ranney home.
--The world feels dusty
The world feels dusty,
when we stop to die
We want the dew then
Honors taste dry.
Flags vex a dying face
But the least fan…
stirred by a friend's hand
Cools like the rain
Mine be the ministry
when thy thirst comes
Dews of thy-self to fetch
and holy balms.
FEATURING:
Eleanor Ranney
CREW:
Camera and Editing…Geoff Marslett and Melanie West
