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Abstract
SENTIENT BEINGS
Ming-Gui, Xie
Master of Art in Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies in Documentary
SENTIENT BEINGS
Ming-Gui, Xie
Master of Arts in Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies in Documentary
Tainan National University of the Arts, Summer 2007
Key word: Sentient Beings, The Art for self-healing, Art Therapy, Documentary for
self-healing, Documentary, Creation & Research, Creative Images, Life
Issues.
Creation and research can enhance one’s self-awareness of inner life.
The film ”Sentient Beings” is to record the spiritual voyage of how the maker was set to
experience and be self-aware of her life, while the process of making is revealed
through the appropriate imagery and visual vocabulary.
I would like to thank the following people who inspired me with their life philosophy:
This documentary, “Sentient Beings”, originated from the maker’s bereavement,
because of ignorance which provoked the fears within her so that she was unable to take
the grief on the instant. Subsequently the maker utilized the creative image as a
therapeutic intervention in documenting and conveying her realization of “life” all over
this self-healing voyage. This “creative statement” relates the maker’s self-healing track
in her making of “Sentient Beings” over the five years from 2002 to 2007.
The documentary “Sentient Beings” was created in order to transcend myself and
to share with others. It is intended to help those who cannot accept the loss of life like
me and to open a dialogue with those who have gone through and even beyond the
bereavement.
Giving an account of “Sentient Beings” and narrated in my own language, this
research of creation involves very intimate and personal themes but may not completely
convey my whole idea. Yet, the incompleteness just spares me a space to move forward
constantly in the way to realization…..
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