“Ways To Avoid”, shot during a travel through the Himalaya, is a video-essay too devoid of purpose to be recognized as a video art work or a feature: without special effects, creative inventions or aestheticisms. A metadocumentary which can’t be qualified either as documentary because of its total lack of inquiry, comments and descriptions. I have approached the Indian culture and Tibetan Buddhism because I was interested in the different ways of reality perception, so I tried to deduce from them a kind of prospective, a way to understand imagines, and I tried to translate them in a method of filmmaking. My film is only a journey, nothing but a journey... an attempt of empting after which things remain just seen...” (the director).

Sceneggiatura / Screenplay Theo Eshetu
Fotografia (colore) / Photography (colour) Theo Eshetu
Montaggio / Editing Theo Eshetu, Alex Chiodo
Suono / Sound Keir Fraser
Produzione / Production Theo Eshetu
Anno di produzione / Year of production 2002
Durata / Running time 60’
Formato / Format DV

Theo Eshetu

Born in London in 1958, 1981 he graduated in Visual Communication from North East London Polytechnic after having attended various classes in video, cinema, graphics, audio, photography. Since 1982 he lives and works in Rome. His video artistic research is marked by the syncretism of different languages and a personal view where communicativeness and abstraction live together. Among others he made the videos: Body and Soul (2005, Special Event in Venice), Blood Is Not Fresh Water (1997, Prix du Conseil de L’Europe in Locarno), Travelling Light (1992, 1st prize at the Video Festival of Berlin), Mass Memory (1994, screened in Venice), Questa è Vita (1986, 1st prize a U-tape in Ferrara), Nativity (1989, Award Oscar Signorini), L’altro Mondo (1987, Award Film Maker, 2nd Prize at U-tape in Ferrara).