Travel of the mind

Whether you’re looking inward or hiking outward, the goal is always psychological: to open your mind and to challenge old ways of thinking.

Films, for me, have allowed a kind of travel of the mind. My Peter-Tammer-inspired experience at VCA, including the “doco club” screenings every Tuesday night, opened my eyes to a world of ideas I could never have imagined.

Films have improved my understanding of others and how they see life. That can only be a good thing.

Films have both deepened my faith and brought me into places where I needed to go back and re-examine and question what I believed more deeply. Surely that must also be beneficial.

Decent films, as with all decent art, have the potential to be a vehicle for travel of the mind.

And what’s decent art? That’s the kind that becomes deeper and more revealing with each subsequent viewing; and long after viewing, continues to play on in one’s mind – asking, answering and enlightening…

… a little like a travel, really.