Passengers

In 2024 I decided to visit some places I had been to before, places near where I am in the present and places I’ve never been to in the past. As I travelled from here to there, filming this and that I was reminded once again that nothing stands still and nothing stays the same. One of the things that I always wondered about was the intention of the occupied places I would see and what determined the way in which they were expressed. Sometimes it seemed clear while at other times it didn’t appear clear at all. I was also reminded of the phrase “Spaceship Earth” coined by Buckminster Fuller to describe our planet. He felt that humans along with all other sentient beings are passengers travelling through space as a self‐contained system, dependent on its own vulnerable supplies of natural resources (including air, water, and soil). So what will others will see in the future? Will they determine that there was a coherent and considered relationship to the natural world or will they see chaos and competing needs with no coherent considerations at all? Eventually the world we know will disappear and will be replaced by a world we won’t recognize even though it largely adapted and evolved in response to our dreams as well as our nightmares. Passenger was Filmed on location then edited by Kent Tate in four parts. Each part is sequential to each travel during the months of April, June, July and Sept. 2024 in Saskatchewan, Alberta & BC.