Matan Rochlitz and Ivo Gormley posed intimate questions – Are you in love? Who do you care about most? What do you want to do with your life? – to runners in London and captured their candid responses in the short documentary seen above. Gormley elaborates:
As we gained confidence we started to be able to delve deeper. We heard about people running with heads filled with the potential of love, the worries of knowing what to do next, the moment of realising that you won’t have children, about escaping depression, about how the world was created by god, and planning to have more sex. They opened up to us, again and again. Less and less, would they reject our requests for a conversation. In the meanwhile the seasons were rolling by; we kept going during the winter and the summer brought new waves of enthusiasts. After each trip we found ourselves exhausted but increasingly inspired. I became quite envious of this state of mind and the focus that the runners expressed. It made me excited about being human and about their sense of peace and understanding of the present. It made me want to be part of it.
(Hat tip: Aeon Films)
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