From the past comes whispers of our future

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On May 7th 2020, at 10am PST / 5pm GMT, film producer Martin Marquet released The Final Passage online, with free viewings made available for the entire world to enjoy the 28 minute sequence shot film offering a cinematic and immersive experience of the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc Cave, where over 36,000 years ago, in an underground sanctuary, humans painted their story on the walls of their environment and were among the first to create narrative art. 

Today, thousand of years later, their voices can still be heard …. 

Magisterial and sacred, Rock Art is a living art of incomparable power and beauty that has the magic to re-enchant today’s world. 

The English version is narrated by Marianne Faithful and the makers advise the lights be turned off and the sound turned up for full effect. Take a journey back in time. The beauty of the caves have been meticulously recreated. The journey slowly builds to it’s climactic reveal of art as ancient as the world but as relevant to us today as it was then. There is beauty in the silence of the caves, power in the imagery and it resonates with our current shared experience, the journey into the interior.

This film is available until June 7th.

“It is a time for the emergence of a new spiritual quality, which is a more interior time. This inner time, which is specific to our species, invites sharing and otherness among all. Imagination and poetry find their place in the luxury of this "regained time.” 

"The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet," writes Novalis. In this crisis of the outer world questioning so many parameters, including some of the most profound ones affecting our human condition and the awareness we have of ourselves, shall we regain a soul?”

Jean-Michel Geneste - March 2020

Read the full essay in English HERE

in French HERE Text Français d’origine écrit par Jean-Michel Geneste’s disponible en cliquant sur ce lien