Blood is Life - A meditation on the cycle of life and death

While some films are made to elicit emotions such as sadness, fear, joy, this film is prescribed and intended for therapeutic purposes.  Blood Is Life offers humans a chance to release stress by meditating through a visual and audio Nature based landscape.  Studies have concluded that exposure to imagery of nature is associated with improved mental and physical well-being.  When we immerse ourselves in nature, our innate emotional relationship with other living beings, known as “biophilia” is strengthened.  Our relationship to much of the natural world has become limited, including how we approach and honor the cycle of life and death, shifting away from things like menstruation and dying because they have become taboo.  Inspired by the witnessing of my brother’s passing, his ashes are buried within the film both literally and metaphorically, springing forth new life.  Powerful notions of the primitive, the romance and fragility of life and death, and the incorruptibility of nature aim to bring us back to the source, away from materialism and back to our true Nature. 

Good speakers/headphones are recommended.