Telling stories that resonate with the human spirit

Very few traditions have remained relevant to mankind since its beginning. Story is one of them and has been passed along verbally, through pictures, through song and music, and through performance. Not only does this tradition span all time, it transcends culture. Its universality reveals that it is a core part of who we are as human beings. Stories affect us, teach us, and influence us. They are healing. We take what we relate to and apply it to ourselves. They help us understand how we can be different or how we might handle a situation; to learn a lesson without having to suffer; to share a joy that we might not otherwise have understood.

“… in art, whether it’s poetry, fiction, or painting, you are telling the reader or the listener something he already knows but which he doesn’t quite know that he knows … What the artists does … is simply validate the human experience and to tell people the deep human truths which they already unconsciously know.”
- Walker Percy, Walker Percy, the Man and the Novelist: An Interview

Today, the most popular mode of storytelling runs at 24 pictures every second. The movie.