I can’t say exactly when it began, but at one point in my quest to find the ultimate express of Zen while filmmaking, leading towards Cinematic Enlightenment, I came up with the concept of Movies in the Moment. I am sure a lot of you out there know what a Zen Film Movie in the Moment is, but for those of you who don’t, basically how it is created is by capturing that small moment of time on film, or however else you seize your images. Finding it, truly seeing it, feeling it, experiencing it, and then filming that piece of Life History.
 
Recently, in my feeds, I have been receiving little, short pieces of cinema that truly embrace this concept. Most of these originate from Japan. There are people filming a few seconds up to a minute or two of just a passing scene of life. They are titling it by the location where it was filmed and stuff like that.
 
In viewing the Movies in the Moment film work of others, I don’t know if they are coming from the same philosophic perspective as myself??? But, they have definitely understood the essence of the Zen in film.

In seeing these cinematic works it makes me realize that I could post an untold number of them from Japan and, in fact, other places around the globe as I have shot so many Movies in the Moment. In someways, however, maybe that is the true perfection of them; you shoot them, feel that moment in its entirety, and then it is gone. True Zen.
 
If you feel like, you can hop over to my page on YouTube, there I have a playlist of a few of these Zen Film: Movies in the Moment. I haven’t posted any new ones there in a long time but if you’re curious about the technique, this will let you know. Maybe I should post some more???
 
I believe if you think about it, there is magic when you simply step beyond the realms of the obvious and see things as if you are seeing them for the first time. Really step into the beauty and the perfection and the movement of them. In that space, I believe, that a new understanding of realty and human/life movement may be found.
 
So, next time you are sitting somewhere, or maybe in your car at a stop light or in a traffic jam or anywhere really, take a moment to step back and truly see and experience that Life Scape. Study it. View it as if you are seeing it for the first time. Because really you are. Feel the perfection and the beauty of it. Maybe even film it, as I’m sure you have a camera in your phone wherever you go. From this, you may come to a new a deeper understanding of the reality in which you live.
 
Make a Movie in the Moment. Let it be one of your meditations.