In this short, the director and film critic Mark Cousins explores the transience of in-between states in his take on The Oar & the Winnowing Fan.
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look at this place to strip a grass
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between the sea on the left and the road
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and the right
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I love in-between places like this they
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filmed this in the north of Scotland it
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reminds me of the story of the ore and
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the winnowing fan the theme of these
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little films Ulysses in Homer’s Odyssey
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has been travelling on the sea and of
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course he’s been rowing his boat with an
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oar but he gets off the boat imagine him
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getting off the boat on the left of this
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image and carries the or with him he
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meets somebody and he says where should
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I go to live and the person says go and
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take the ore to a place in the world
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where people no longer recognize the or
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as an ore they think it’s a winning fan
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for cutting down crops there you should
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live and this is a parable about in
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between this a celebration of a debate
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in between this it what it’s saying is
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that all our identities can be in
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between national identities personal
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identities can be several things at once
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just like an oar can be an oar and a
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winnowing fan
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you
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