About | FLUX : On The Road

FLUX is a collection of video art works, an ongoing research on constant change and balance, through the narrative of elements.

The successive chapter of this collection, FLUX: On The Road, is a short film project, a narrative on breaking the cyclic existence, Samsara, and the search of a state of “Consciousness”, inspired from the ancient Vedic Mantra; ”Om purnamadah purnamidam purnat purnamudachyate purnasya purnamadaya purnamevavashisyate.” which may be translated as; ”That is infinite, this is infinite; from that, this comes. This added or removed from that, the infinite remains as infinite.“

As thoroughly explained by Alan Watts, the word Maya is derived from the Sanskrit root matr-, meaning to measure, form, build. The fundamental process of measurement is division, whether by drawing a line or sorting liquids into cups. Thus the Sanskrit root dva- from which we get the word “divide” is also the root of the Latin “duo” (two) and the English “dual”. Definitions, setting bounds are all acts of division and thus of duality, for as soon as a boundary is defined, it has two sides. Therefore, Maya, the manifold world of facts and events, defines only terms of measurement rather than realities of nature.

The visuals and the narrative had been studied based on this misconception of Duality, aiming to deconstruct and rethink what had been divided to our senses. The frames are composed of juxtaposed visuals, in reference to this understanding of duality of the “subject” and “object” and are personified as the journey of two wanderers, crossing paths, falling in love and falling apart, repeatedly; a continuous loop of encounters beyond timelines and lifespans, and finally realizing the illusion of being “me” and “you”: There is only being part of a whole. Being one.

The script originates from a collection of stories from the road and is accompanied by unplanned footages from different parts of the world, from different landscapes, seasons and cultures, from Cambodia, Greece, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Maldives, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States, from the desert, the mountains, the jungle, the ocean, the sea and the air.

The music and sound design is created in harmony with the narrative storyline. The instruments themselves take on the roles of narrative characters, weaving together acoustic and electronic sounds that flow and fluctuate with the emotional cues of the overall narrative.

FLUX: On The Road aims to develop a channel to understand the concept of the mind’s liberation, interpreting the ancient Eastern teachings into a script that is free from the analytical abstraction of the Western approach, pointing out the continuous loop of moving inward and outward, washing away the duality of "inside" and "outside", encouraging to find a common ground to be the observer and the observee concurrently.

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Written & Directed by Deniz Sak

Narrated by Deniz Sak & Sam Leigh

Music & Sound Design by Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu & Metehan Köktürk

Foley Sound Consultancy by Efe Yılmaz

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