The face of community deliberation
Citizens and political representatives on my home island of Bowen Island, at a meeting this week in which a controversial decision was made to build an artifical turf playing field at our community school. I didn’t run this meeting…it was a regular council meeting, but the one in which the decision was made. The soundtrack is something of a political statement from the videographer, but the images are beautiful. They show my friends and neighbours as they sit pitted against one another in a tense meeting over a deep quality of life issue. Just studying and watching these faces reminds me of how hard this work really is sometimes, to tough through difficult choices and live out your principles and dreams.
Thanks for posting the video here Chris. I just want to clarify that the song choice is more than just an “on the surface” political comment. It’s a song about the ironies and disappointments in life. It’s a song about having regret for poor decisions made earlier in life. It’s about coming to the realization… “Aren’t we all the fools” for allowing things to get so out of hand… as in my opinion, the turf issue has. In the theatrical sense, it means, if the show isn’t going well, let’s send in the clowns. In other words, it’s time for the jokes.
It is all these things that, in my eyes, seemed to have all culminated in people on both sides of the issue at the council meeting the other night.
And that is the statement which this video makes.
Cheers,
George
BowenTV
Thanks George…I wasn’t sure if it was a comment on people rather than atmospherics. It’s a beautiful piece, and thanks for clearing that up.