#kin fables

[illustratus]

[leeaneea]

3.

[thedrowningtsarevna]

This World

You know it too though, don’t you? Anyone who has heard the anguish of the violin, or the sound of weary fingers on piano keys. Anyone who has felt pierced by emotion, as if pinioned by the singular arrow of God. Anyone who has observed the wind tossed sea, the first snow, the glittering meadow, and wondered at the beauty that nature bestows upon us. If you have loved, if you have lost, if you have wept until your knees buckled from the force of your own emotion, if you have been overcome, utterly lost, then you have known. You have known just a fragment of this multifaceted mirror, moving deep within you. Like a glass shard in your heart.

If there is indeed a God, then that is where he persists. In that unspeakable beauty, in the afterglow of a storm, in the unknowable quantity of mystery that possesses this world.

I wish only to embrace him, as if we were old friends. To wander on the seashore, some day, and feel once more what I felt as a child. For though this world exhausts me, I sense sometimes the shadow of what so often haunted me when I was still young enough to believe in something beyond what is currently perceivable by humanity. I wish only to illustrate this shadow, to bring light to what lies hidden.

Tolkien once spoke of this when he wrote of the passing of the Elves and the coming of man. He recognized the departure of the old world, the dying out of a certain humankind; of poets and scholars and madmen. All to be replaced by the new society. A society that translates thoughts and actions into machines that parrot them through a million networks into 7 billion minds.

Some say God is dead, but I see him still, in those few wonders this world has not turned to dust or used as some means for further destruction.

I wish I didn’t know this world.

[theartofmany]

“Genre : Soundtrack / Downtempo / Trip-Hop Country : Canada Released : December 1, 2017 Bandcamp : https://clann.bandcamp.com/music Website : http://kinfables.com/ https://www.clannmusic.com/ KIN Fables : The Stolen Child (Official video) : https://youtu.be/Hn-J0Lw2fJI” From Youtube channel Years Of Silence: CLANN — Seelie [Full Album] This is so beautiful Enjoy... (Tracklist in the description of the video)

[stillwaterteacupart]

Kin Fables: The Stolen Child

[frostandrime47]

[umbreellaa]

stills from the new chapter of the KIN Fables by Five Knights Productions and House of Youth

The Stolen Child, directed by Seb McKinnon 

[cydrhos]

Many years ago I watched a play written, produced and acted by my local youth theatre. I noticed after an hour or so that the stage had become the real world and the auditorium a grey void of dust and shadows.

These films – Kin, Salvage and Requiem – have me bewitched every time; they hold a world from which I’m ever loath to return.

I regret extremely that whatever I post will never do justice to their beauty.

Finding their creation become a world to their viewers must seem strange to the makers of such films. Doubtless gratifying, but with the memory of cold and damp, make-up, running noses and broken finger nails, fully costumed actors under duffel coats and muddy boots, hours of editing slouched before a PC and the last of the coffee, surely sometimes rather difficult to reconcile. Pulling them to pieces again in order to post pictures doesn’t seem quite right but they are beautiful films, and strangely moving, and I have no other way of sharing them.

(I also, cynically, think that if more of us enjoy them then more of us will offer the director our support and the feature film for which I hope will become real a little sooner…)

So I’ll post a few stills from three shorts and a teaser, perhaps some more later, and hope they don’t offend.