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The purpose of our lives is to prepare our lives in a manner that is as noble as the forces that created us … We prepare with a devotion to the truth – so that we may, upon that moment when the composition of our body changes … be worthy of the next stage of the continuum. – Cecil Taylor

The Silent Eye is the new performance film by Amiel Courtin-Wilson featuring Japanese dancer Min Tanaka and American jazz pianist and poet Cecil Taylor. Shot in Cecil Taylor's home over three days in January 2016, the film is a highly intimate, impressionistic portrait of the unspoken rapport between two masters of their form. Shot by Sundance award winning cinematographer Germain McMicking and featuring sublime slow motion cinematography of Cecil and Min at work together, the film plays out like a timeless, elegant conversation between the two men – at once meditative and highly moving.