If I Could Make a Video

If I could make a video I would do this: Begin with a person on their knees praying. Lighting chiaroscuro. Their voice can be heard but the words can’t be made out. The POV backs up to reveal another praying person, then more and more until it’s an indistinguishable mass of praying people. The sound of their prayers has increased to a roar.

Pov continues to back up until it backs right out of the earpiece of a set of headphones being worn by a man with long white hair and beard. He snatches off the headphones and drops them on his desk, saying, “Jesus Christ.” A long-haired and bearded young man in a robe is just walking past the doorway and he stops and says, “Yes, Father?”

If I could make a video that’s what I’d make, but I can’t.

rjb