Agnes and I

Within the first 5 minutes of  Villages Visages, a striking image comes up that pierces back into my memory. It's a truck on a road, framed by the curved hands of an aged woman, shaped in on okay shape, as if she is looking through a telescope. These are the hands of the Agnes Varda, and it's an image from her incredible film, The Gleaners and I.

Sitting there watching Varda's latest film at the ANU Film Group, I was transported back to two moments in my life. First, 

Second, back to one of the first movies I watched as part of my 

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Reflecting on my life now, how much have I gleaned from this world? How much have I remembered? How much attention have I paid to the forgotten, the discarded, and the disenfranchised? 

I can say that throughout the years I've volunteered for some community legal centres, volunteered for HIV/AIDS organisations and international health organisations, and worked with the UNHCR. I continue to work for the government, contributing to the greater public good. An okay list, but they remain peripheral to my daily existence, my career goals, and my personal desires. Right now, it does not feel like I am doing all that much. It doesn't appear to go to the core of my belief system, at least at the moment.

Nonetheless, it's always good time to reflect, and take stock. So here's to those whom I have discarded but hopefully not yet forgotten. 

To the indigenous, To the refugees, to the gays and lesbians, to those I've left behind from school and Bangkok, who

To my family, whom I don't speak to too much, my nieces and nephews whom I've watch grow through pixels and weekends here and there, to my dad whom I see about once a year, to my mother whom I should call more often, to her memories and experiences that are fading into the ether.

To my 18 year old self, naive and impressionable and idealistic. To my 23 year old self, on the verge of employment and 

I have started various blogs, and it seems that the best thread from them is that they capture my memories of films.