A MOMENT
TO WITNESS
BATTERY POINT COMMUNITY HALL
THE FILM
THE WORDS
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I just choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world”
- An extract from East of Eden by John Steinbeck
THE MUSIC
THE CANDLES
The candles used in the ceremony were handcrafted in Uchiko, a small town in Japan’s Ehime Prefecture. Made from wax pressed from the fruits of the haze tree, an ancient variety of sumac that grows slowly over many years, each candle is formed by wrapping that wax around a hollow wick of washi paper and silk fibres.
They are designed not to burn quickly but to glow with steady, intentional warmth.
THE PHOTOS
