"As the world heads East of Eden, we secretly sneak back in, there are no walls in Eden."

1000faces is pleased to announce that we have officially broken the seal on our first exploration into the world of film after a three hour interview was filmed this past Sunday.   This otherwise untitled documentary is set to be released in early 2011.  The film will be put together by the good people of Eikon Productions run by Jason Miller and funded by both 1000 Faces and Slow Coffee based in Norway. Over the course of the next 12 months our employees will be making several journeys down to Ecuador to help open a window unto, not simply, the beauty of a particular farm's first seasonal plume, but moreover to capture all seasons in the harvest cycle and the roads which make bridges in between. 

The subject is the most important matter of this film, no doubt about that.  It remains to be seen, however, what emergent quality that subject will take it's form as.  A wise man once told me: 'you can make a great story about a stone, if you know how to make a great story.'  So often the subject matter becomes a quality of secondary importance to that of the mythic sensibilities (where there was simply a fire can emerge Gods in the embers, Princes dancing through the smoke, etc.)   Still, subject matter and mythic sensibility do not need to be mutually exclusive categories set in hierarchical strata, they can be buddies.  This is play.  This is drama. This is living.  For better or worse, chipped teeth/bruised egos/up all night sorrow, we are ALIVE and the secret to life is: how to kiss.   How to hold and not crush.  How to show and how to tell.  How to make the mundane, sacred.  This is, in a stone, what we at 1000 faces have trying throw against your window for the past three years.

Though we have no story boards or scripts in our back pockets, we dive right in... capturing non-actors playing or rather being themselves in a way in which sweat and dream fold out, like paper lawn chairs in heavy hearted wind and grassy forgotten hills....  

And though we buy the ticket....  

And though we take the journey....

Wrenching our hearts and minds dry, sewing together poetics, ecology, culinary themes, and political discourse as steadily as we can...

However! The real gem-stone of this movie is going to be the remarkable road. It always is.  But not just that. Something more.  A bridge maybe...directly past the limits of our abandonment, into what we hope is the still forest of the unbreakable.  This is slow coffee.  Making coffee something more than a product for blind consumption.  Making coffee with a story we can embody while we drink in cultivated rapture.

Sneak back in.