When my eyes finally made contact with the kite I would feel a combination of exhilaration and gratitude. Eventually he would stand behind me and with one hand on either side of my head he would direct my eyes in the direction that I needed to be looking. My own father would try to point his finger in the direction that I should look, but still I couldn’t find my missing kite. Sometimes the kite would fly so high that I would loose site of it. The image that came to my mind was flying a kite as a small child. After seeing the film I felt for a while as if I was seeing the world anew – like I had seen through ‘the matrix’ for fans of the movie – and I wondered about how the film had brought about so subtle a shift in perspective. If I were to try to sum up the film in a phrase I would call it a multidimensional mosaic retrospective of an extraordinary mind. It is also not a character study or a study of his ideas and discoveries although both of these are also included. At the start of the film Nora claims that it is a film “about the way Gregory Bateson thinks.” I would go further and say that the film actually manages to give the viewer a glimpse of the world the way Gregory Bateson saw it.Īn Ecology of Mind is not a biographical look at Gregory Bateson’s life although it includes aspects of both his personal and professional story. The film is an hour-long documentary about the anthropologist and philosopher Gregory Bateson that was created by his daughter Nora Bateson.
Some years ago I had the pleasure to attend a special pre-screening of a new film entitled An Ecology of Mind.
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