John keeps looking away while filming sick children and worried mothers in Ethiopia (2014)
story · status: told 2× · last event: retold (2020-01-28)
Filming in Ethiopia in July 2014, John kept looking away from sick children and worried mothers, and in September he made a video about it called Looking Away. He came back to it in 2020 with Looking Away (Again).
Part of: John's visit to rural health care in Ethiopia with the Gates Foundation (2014)
About: Ethiopia, Henry Green
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-23 (happened 2014-07) | told | John tells how, filming in Ethiopia, he kept looking away from a girl holding her sick brother, families at a hospital, preterm babies and a very sick boy his son's age. | Looking Away 00:00:19 |
| 2020-01-28 | retold | John recalls making a video from Ethiopia six years ago called Looking Away, about listening to and supporting people living in absolute poverty. → refers to Looking Away | Looking Away (Again) 00:02:20 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2014-09-23 · Looking Away — John says that in Ethiopia he talked with a girl clinging to her brother; her mother works in Kuwait, her father in the city, and her grandfather cares for them. — 00:00:00
- 2014-09-23 · Looking Away — John says the girl told him she missed her mom and worried her brother might have pneumonia; the way she held her brother shattered him, and eventually he looked away. — 00:00:10
- 2014-09-23 · Looking Away — John says much of his Ethiopia footage shows him looking away: from families at a hospital, preterm babies under inadequate heat lamps, and a very sick boy his son's age awaiting a malaria test. — 00:00:19
- 2014-09-23 · Looking Away — John thinks he looked away partly because the moments felt private, though people gave permission, but also because it was hard to watch kids suffer and feel powerless. (hedged) — 00:00:52
- 2014-09-23 · Looking Away — John suggests that maybe this voicelessness is part of what makes it easier to look away, but regardless, he kept doing it. (hedged) — 00:01:12
- 2014-09-23 · Looking Away — John says he has hours of footage of his camera looking away; what he videotaped most in Ethiopia was his shoes. (playful) — 00:01:19