As for you, Gilgamesh…

Writes Professor Albert Lafarge:

Laura Brock’s Literary Traditions film is based on a segment of Gilgamesh, the life lesson, as it were. The film started with the title “Value” but somewhere along the line it lost that. Some lively, saturated moments, and a pull into a kind of calm celebratory tone, the passage of a day tracking the idea in Gilgamesh of a passage toward emotional wisdom.

 Writes Laura Brock (’20):

When given life, one has to expect death and battle with the idea of mortality and meaning. In my film, I focus on the common theme of struggling with the acceptance of death and living life purposefully.

In the passage above from Gilgamesh,, the tavern keeper tells Gilgamesh that eternal life is not possible and that he should live his life as fully as he can. That passage inspired my movie. (Laura Brock statement paraphrase)

Laura Brock’s complete project proposal is here.