Whenever I'm feeling too rooted, which is most of the time, the only antidote usually at hand is clicking on a video posted on Vimeo: "Trip to Ladakh, India 2009." It's not my trip. I don't know the people in the video, who, I think, are a group of seven friends from Singapore. I probably watch it once a month, and it always has the odd effect of making me tear up. Maybe there's a name for that feeling. Projected nostalgia?
The clip is about nine minutes long. After the opening credits, the first shot is from the window of a patchwork airplane flying lower than the surrounding hills that seem close enough to touch. The group then travels overland from temperate zones to snowy ones, eats, sightsees and relaxes at hotels. The travel is not especially rigorous, although it's not a trip to Disneyland, either. The video is shot on a Digital Harinezumi (the name means "hedgehog" in Japanese), a plastic camera the size and shape of an old 110 film cartridge that creates lo-res images. (I found "Trip to Ladakh" while looking for Harinezumi videos.) Early versions of the camera had no sound, but the postproduction soundtrack of "Trip to Ladakh" consists of two of my favorite songs: "All My Days," by Alexi Murdoch, and "He Came to Meet Me," by the Brooklyn-based band Hem. (The band was interviewed by Leonard Lopate on WNYC.)
The person who posted the video is named Terence Tay. I think he appears at the 5:26 mark in a self-portrait taken on a swing. I've always wanted to write him a fan letter, but the Web site listed on his Vimeo page is obsolete. Tay is a master of the Harinezumi: the light on the hills at 2:20; the prayer flags at 5:32; the feel of the sun on the neck of a monk at 6:27; a monk standing alone on a windy ledge at 8:11. Mostly he captures the niceness of the Group of Seven. They are always on the move: endless trips in cars, in vans and on bikes. I've traveled a bit in South Central Asia, so I know the price of entry for that kind of experience is 18-hour bus rides. Movement. That's what I'm looking for: Only movement.
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