Sarah Konoski

Well, the honest truth is often we didn't know what they were saying.

Oftentimes we would have a translator there and they were, you know, in my ear.

NA would be like, this is great.

You know, he might not even give me any details on it, but he's just like, just make sure you press record on this one.

And, yeah, I guess it was just a sense of gravitas that they would bring that you could hear, you learnt to read.

But, yeah, also N.A.

translating or Eric translating, they were giving you little synopsis like, yeah, this is about, you know, the spirits in the sky or this is about the need to crack a goat's jaw to allow for its spirit to reincarnate.

you know, little things like this.

And then you get back into the edit and the things you thought were most profound are not.

They're just, you know, making fun of, you know, my haircut that particular day.

Or maybe, yeah, but the opposite was true as well.

Sometimes something would just be said in such a poetic, beautiful way and they speak often in a way that's epic and mythic.

just hits the spot like a little haiku.

And I use many of those moments.

Yeah, it's interesting how they just seem to take the best bits of many religions or belief systems, whether it's shamanic or Buddhist or Christian.

But yeah, the boys did seem to have a real...

fascination with what happens after we die, which is great that they're so young.

I don't know if I was tackling those big existential issues at that age myself.

Yeah, true.

Maybe I think it forces them to reflect on some of those bigger themes and their place within a circle of life and death because they're so close to life and to death every day.