Cinema Muto

La Vocation D’André Carel: The Vocation of André Carel

58 La Vocation D’André Carel: The Vocation of André Carel “From his experiences of hard labor working on barges transporting stone, a young man [the son of a famous writer] discovers love, the beauty of the world, and his vocation as an artist.” —Le Giornate del Cinema Muto catalogue In the morning this land is a mountain at night— it becomes a lake It is all a matter of direction We are on a boat that is carrying the mountain stone by stone across the lake to build even more Geneva— what is a city but cut stone set on stone? Every week, we sail from our village built of wood in a wooden boat But only after we have loaded each stone —heavy as a family in our village— on a wooden barrow w/ wooden wheels and rolled it across wooden planks to stack it upon the deck 59 In the end—wood pulls the mountain down, using us as roots, our fingers pulling, pulling as they pull now at the oars or the rope to raise the sail One day a boy came from the city to help us with the hauling. From us, he learned to work learned that work is life earned the love he longed to have In the end, André married his Reine daughter of his captain and with fifty oars we rowed them the length of Lake Geneva to their wedding feast— Then they left us, for the world beyond our lake for a cruise around the world where they would not be manning any oars André, son of his wise father, took what he had learned of work of life He also took Reine but don’t be fooled— as we were When André left, he traveled light and left behind the stones ...