I highly doubt that Amir Zaki’s short ‘Meditations on the Hollywood Juniper’ was created with the intention of sending people to sleep, but the persistent whispering and the fade to fade imagery has me stumbling toward slumber. That said, I’m not complaining. It’s mesmeric, and altogether illuminating.

As the odd shaped plants come and go you start to argue and find faults in what the people are claiming to see. But it’s more then that which made this stand out to me. It’s the surreal acceptance part way through that this video is playing a large part in the way you are feeling. For me, it was a lullaby. I wonder what it will do to you.

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