Panspermia was inspired by a 1976 movie Baq-hr sangi by cult Iranian filmmaker Parviz Kimiavi, featuring Khan Esfandiarpur a deaf mute Dervish dancing ecstatically in a desert garden of stones hung from dead trees.
Khan, a mystic and outcast dreamt an enigmatic stone garden into existence. In the movie he is a dancing leitmotiv for spiritual and poetic freedom and a custodian of the ancients myths, the ‘lunatic’ who proves to be wiser than the civilisation that surrounds him.
I shot the video for Panspermia on location at Dungeness in Kent, Britain’s only desert and the site of another strange and beautiful garden, that of filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman, a visionary outsider who also dreamed his visions in a bizarre and brutal stone landscape.
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