Global Lives Project on Adobe TV
0 (0 Likes / 0 Dislikes)
My name is David Harris and
I am the founder and executive director of the Global Lives Project.
So the Global Lives Project is a collaboration of
filmmakers, photographers, artists, architects, designers and
everyday people, from all over the world.
And what we are doing is working together to build a video library of human life experience.
We started out with a goal of video tapping 24-hours
in the life of 10 people from 10 different countries around the world.
We also share the video library in the form of video installations,
that are immersive environments that are specifically designed to take
you as the viewer out of your everyday life,
and put you into the world of these people
whose lives you never would have been able to know or to see or to understand otherwise.
I really wanted to create a bodily experience
so the idea is that by stepping out of your world physically
and walking into our exhibit physically that takes you into a different
place and a different state of mind. The installation environments
that we build are supposed to really take the distractions away from you
and take you into a space of contemplation of reflection
really even a meditative space
because your watching a video at the same speed that the people actually are living
their lives, it's actually something that you have to slow down a little bit in order to watch
What I would love to see someone leave the exhibit with, is interest in
reading more about other cultures, learning another language,
possibly even travelling to, living in another country for awhile
and also thinking a little bit differently about how we make our decisions in life
how we vote, what we buy. Thinking
about the world in a way that everyone's life is important.
Not just people in your own local community or in your own country.
But that someone on the other side of the world, if you can imagine this,
that their life might have as much value as your neighbors
and really think hard about what that means.
What are the boundaries of your moral universe.
Just because someone is on the other side of this planet
from us, I don't think that means that we can't empathize with them.