Issue #4 - Plasm Productions Newsletter

In October 2024, I left Thailand, where I was quietly editing assemblies in between capturing another water story for the series ‘A Flow Of Consciousness’. (This segment was related to water therapists on the island of Koh Samui who used water to heal people with trauma-related psychoses such as PTSD by literally swirling them through water in order to reconnect them to…well basically, themselves!)

I travelled to Vietnam to meet a long-standing protagonist, Buddhist monk Sayadaw Ashin Ottamasara. For those who have stayed up to date with this project, this would have been the sixth year I was ‘following’ this so-called enigma and his organisation, Thabarwa, with my camera, although we actually met way back in 2015 during the newly establishing democracy of Myanmar.

After a few weeks of interviews and pro-bono filmmakers training (something I started doing at the organisation in 2019 in between collecting footage), I followed the Sayadaw to Naypyidaw, where he continued his peace talk initiatives in an attempt to bring back harmony to the uprising conflict since the coup in 2021. After this final interview, I felt I had found my way into the story and that I could stop ‘chasing’ him, almost, at long last.

This felt like such a relief as this documentary project had been my initial and also longest one since I started as a filmmaker back in 2015. In November, after six weeks in the stunning region of Calabria where the south Italian Thabarwa centre is based, I had finished fleshing out Final Cut footage assemblies and returned to the UK where I began to set up interviews for the second part of ‘A Flow Of Consciousness’.

Next, I travelled southeast to Alicante, Spain, to follow a story I’d dreamed of sharing with the rest of the world, ever since I met the ‘fringe’ doctors and naturopaths in an LA health conference back in 2017 of Quinton. Quinton, discovered over 150 years ago by René Quinton, is an unassuming yet powerful seawater product used to re-condition cells back to an optimum internal terrain-state so that the body can heal itself instead of relying on external factors. Gerardo had tipped me off about their biggest client being located in Romania, whilst Quinton’s CEO,

Francisco, told me he was friends with Masaru Emoto’s son, Hiro! For those who know about the legendary Emoto, he is said to have discovered a way to photograph the various molecular structures of water in response to human emotions, thoughts, and words, controversially termed ‘water memory’. I immediately emailed Hiro who was happy to hear from another documentary filmmaker interested in this phenomenon, and we set up to meet during the World Wide Water Festival in Japan, later in the year.

Back to the UK, I prepared my next set of protagonists for ‘Mergence’, the second part of the ‘A Flow Of Consciousness’, and realised part one, ‘Evanescence’ had won best cinematographer with Parisian film festival, Beyond The Curve.

With new found energy and an expiring Schengen visa, I headed straight to Salzburg, Austria, to visit HADO practitioner and crystal photographer, Akiko Stein.

A total lucky coincidence that she was receiving a visit by the philharmonic orchestra to play 432 hz and 440 hz frequencies! After, she would freeze the water and capture analyse through photos if there was any difference in the crystal structure. It felt like my dreams were literally coming true as I sat in a zero degree ice box peering down the microscope at 200 x magnified snowflake. I decided to hit the record button on her camera, and we managed to capture an amazing scene at the very last minute.

Alongside the huge task of translating and sorting through assemblies of Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch and Romanian, I discovered ‘Evanescence’ was selected to be screened in Aesthetica’s film festival (ASFF) up in York. Aesthetica is apparently the largest UK screening festival so we feel truly honoured to be chosen for this unique event (more to come in November.)

It was early September now, and having worked hard with the editors back home, I packed my bags (again as lightly as possible) and headed to Tokyo to meet Hiro. Soon after, I headed north to a Shinto priest and shaman, Hifumi, where I filmed him on his mission, blessing the water and some other incredible phenomena (which I shall be saving for the film!)

We are proud to announce that ‘A Flow Of Consciousness - Evanescence’ has been chosen for screening at the UK’s largest and most revered screen industry event in York this November 6th - 10th. There seems to be an amazing panel which I’ll be ‘potentially’ speaking on about micro-budget filmmaking, which includes BBC, Film 4, The New York Times, Ubisoft & Ridley Scott and Aardman. Tickets can be purchased from their website and as we are screening they have 50% off using a friends and family code here » 502024FANDFDX