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Director's Statement
Fear of life is a basic human emotion. Religion, creativity, love, sex, the accumulation of objects (that we elevate to ‘collecting’, or denigrate to ‘hoarding’), the quest for fame, money, power – such are the substitutes with which we attempt to smother that deadly fear. Fear of life is far stronger than fear of death. Witness the frequency of murders and suicides – not only real ones, but those we see every day on television or in the cinema. Fear is a dark, subterranean river flowing through our innermost beings and influencing our every moment, whether waking or sleeping. If, as Freud tells us, the purpose of dreams is to fulfil our secret or manifest desires, then surely somewhere deep inside us that most basic of human desires must constantly be being fulfilled: to survive one’s own life.