I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.
The first Abenaki word I ever learned was Bitawbagok _ the word they use for Lake Champlain. It means, literally, the waters between. Since I__e come back from Quebec, I have thought of my address as Bitawkdakinna. I don__ know enough Abenaki to be sure it__ a real word, but translated, it is the world between. I had become a bridge between the natural world and the human one. I fit into both places and belonged to neither. Half of my heart lived with the wild wolves, the other half lived with my family.
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The first Abenaki word I ever learned was Bitawbagok _ the word they use for Lake Champlain. It means, literally, the waters between. Since I__e come back from Quebec, I have thought of my address as Bitawkdakinna. I don__ know enough Abenaki to be sure it__ a real word, but translated, it is the world between. I had become a bridge between the natural world and the human one. I fit into both places and belonged to neither. Half of my heart lived with the wild wolves, the other half lived with my family.
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