Have you found the joy in your life? Has your life brought joy to others? Two simple questions surrounded by the experience of Kathryn Temple. A film concerning the often missed nature of happiness.

"You belong. There was never any condition to that. Ever. You never didn’t belong. Despite what it might seem. And without the need to belong, your need to be right falls away." An artful introduction one of the key principles to this Inner View work.

As time stood itself still, she walked towards the camera as if beckoned by something more powerful than the need to be seen. What happened next was as naked as naked can be. A courageous and utterly beautiful articulation of the sheer weight and terror of depression.

'... there's so much love in my heart that its scares people to the point where it scares me sometimes.' This is beautiful. Watch this gently. Watch this attentively. Watch this with yourself in mind. And know this. Wherever I go. Wherever I look. I find people like Anita. I find people like you.

This short film portrait bears witness to the deep and visceral experience of a devastating illness, ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. And to a live well used. Things can shift dramatically. We're not in control. Life is precious.

What you will see here, in this astonishing 89 seconds, is a normally reserved man speak from his very depths with no filter to the world. As his wife of many years sat just 12 feet away. Filmed in front of a 'Soul Biographies Live' Audience.

This footage is revealing of what is under all Soul Biographies. Most probably a must for all drawn to the nature of these films. There is a field. This field is the very atmosphere in which I film. It elicits something different in nature. In Dallas, I sat in this field. This time, in front of the camera. And this is what happened.

If I am to be entirely honest you would be a fool not to give this you full and undivided attention for its full and undivided duration. I imagine the experience will contribute in ways you might not be able to place words against. It is a profound wondering about the experience of life, death and cancer.

A transformational human journey to find the Soul of America. To give voice to its innermost longing. And its outermost possibility. A nation turned inwards towards what is truly important. A new definition for the fractured and troubled times.

This film explores the extraordinary change in a relationship between Mother and Daughter following the onset of dementia. It's metaphorical for so many of the events that seek to challenge our lives. Events seemingly out of our control.

Conflict is universal. I imagine each conflict is reflective of all others. The Klamath Conflict is notorious. I imagine it will reflect shards of your world. If not more. And point to how we might live and work well together.

"It’s 2am. You’re wide awake. Feeling alone. Unseen. And inexplicably lost. Discontent despite all that you have around you. The people. Your life. Your dreams. You wear a face that tells the world you’re OK, but you’re not. You’re bone achingly tired from the relentless game of belonging."

We level our ire at the world around us. The world with which our opinion so often disagrees. But might our energy be better focused on the experience within our own personal jurisdiction. This was filmed from deep within the experience of a thoughtful life lived through desegregation in Alabama. This film is the epitome of the experience of peace.

What is it that lives in the space between any two people in a relationship. This film is a portrait of a marriage, and considers the experience of appreciation, gratitude, trust and love.

Might we all have a part to play in the life of another? This film captures the experience of an extraordinary soul. From the holocaust to the delights of the London Underground. Meet Alison. 93. Alive. Very alive.

Beyond the drama of tragic events lies the deafening, visceral and prolonged experience of grief. An experience that is seemingly untouchable by those who look in from the outside.

Warning. This is haunting. You might be haunted. Jayanie and I have a knowing. Between us. Beyond words. Beyond time. This we know. Though we had never met. Might there be nowhere to get to? Might you call off the search?

‘... perhaps true beauty is something that draws our attention at second glance, once the judgment of a first glance has realised it’s mistake.’ This is a film about the possibility that exists beyond judgment.

The film starts, "... I usually have a lot of words. Now it feels different." Get lost in the quiet mystery of this between its frames. Between its words. Wonder about why you are here. Wonder about freedom. Your own freedom.

'… she knew she was going to die anyway, and then she decided that day would be the day. I think it was the loneliness thing I’ve ever seen. She walked past me and laid on the bed and she nodded yes to the Doctor. I can’t find words for what it felt like to be there.’ A film about the last hour of a life.

The Hospice Community at Joseph's House in Washington DC hold the belief that no one should live, or die alone. Welcome to ‘On the Edge of Life and Death’. It’s the film title, because it is just that.

"... I used to think I'd be rescued by someone or something. There's no need. And the sense of relief and letting go, and freedom is just so peaceful." Unadulterated humanity and a raw truth for so many of us held in the words and the spaces of these few minutes.

The carer to a partner with a debilitating illness so often carries a vast unseen weight. A weight that can change so much. In the uncontrollable vulnerability of such a journey, one might break wide open. And in such fracture might exist vast questions.

In the protracted and often violent Klamath Conflict over land and water there have been those who have led the difficult work towards truth and understanding. Becky is one. Her perspective relevant to all human conflict.

A profound observation of disconnectedness and the pathway to interconnectedness in the violent Klamath Conflict. Relevant to all conflict. The process of vulnerability and truth is more important than one could ever imagine.

'In those life experiences of our greatest pain and suffering also comes the greatest love and beauty, and transformation.' This is a film about sudden loss, and the experience of telling a young child that her Father had died.

A Portrait Series that has set out to capture the very human experience of Schizophrenia. Such experience might have something to show us all.

In this film Sting’s guitarist and writing partner reveals more than you might expect, and offers a quietly provocative observation on the nature of creativity, and the possibility for the story of your own life.

This is a film about what democracy truly is. It's about inclusion. And proximity. And the full undivided attention given to another person. This is so very important. Particularly amongst a seeming intractable conflict.

In the protracted Klamath Conflict in Oregon, a Farming Community Leader came to the revelation that the things that he held as fact weren't, people that he once thought of as evil and selfish were not, and that he was part of the problem. And such revelations changed everything.

Perhaps with understanding, comes the falling away of judgment. And with the falling away of judgment, comes the ability to see with clarity. And with such an ability to see, comes the opportunity to share a wealth beyond measure.

“I’ve spent my life trying to make the ordinary extraordinary. Or show that it’s extraordinary.” As the viewer, one might wonder how much of your life has been spent in search of the extraordinary and about the toll of such pursuit.

Here, anguish and love live side by side. Deserving of your full and undivided attention. If simply for the immense courage it took the subject to sit unflinchingly in front of the camera. This is a stark and perhaps achingly beautiful human encounter.

In the search for the 'Soul of America' I know the voice that will point us there has a very particular tone. Such tone comes from a place beyond the opinion of right and wrong. From presence without need to convince. Michael spoke with this tone. Might we find the courage to be a little kinder in the absence of tragedy.

When setting out to witness the inner voice of a Nation some of what I'll capture on film will not be easy. A mirror held up to what so many of us know to be true. These few minutes ask a difficult question about how you act on the recognition of the suffering of another.

‘… stress is the invisible force that robs and keeps people from experiencing the depth of who they really are.’ This film looks at the possibility of looking past the symptom to the cause. It identifies stress as a beautiful contrast that give one the opportunity to understand the unadulterated potential of a human life.

Living through the protracted experience of dispossession, Jeff Mitchell alongside others has seen a way through the pain of generations. Some in the Klamath Basin have a collective realization that when one truly knows another there is the vast possibility to transform everything.

In the complex landscape of Schizophrenia, I imagine Compassionate Care should not be absent. Care that is unconditional. Care that is full of hope and of possibility.

To converse is more than simply an exchange. True conversation without particular end in sight, and without bounds is extraordinary. And we would each be richer for such encounter.

The ability to see through the eyes of another holds the key to empathy. And empathy exists as a quality that might transform the complexion of everything. This is film about the world experienced through the lens of paranoid schizophrenia.

'I knew everything was fleeting. It comes and it goes. We just have now. I am thankful for the gift to my existence.' An unsuspecting subject filmed in front of a live Soul Biographies audience.

'What he called weird was his intense deep gaze which was more like a reflective portal back into my-self. Now I only know that I love myself and I’m enough just as I am without doing anything at all.' Might the essence of Soul Biographies just been outed?

'It is like a miracle. I've got a son back that I thought I'd lost. We're probably closer now than we've ever been but it did start in a difficult place.' A film of hope and light from a seemingly dark and endless place.

Stop. Listen. Those were two unexpected and disconcerting words. Disconcerting because I realized that if I were to play the game honestly, then I might never write another word again. Or make another film.

Imagine your life, or your child's life following its course and then an abrupt and brutal turn. The sudden onset of Schizophrenia. A violent shock to what was. A loss. At a loss. And a soul rendered desolate and alone.

Psychotic symptoms can seem frightening. People don't understand. And misunderstanding can lead to prejudice. Prejudice to stigma. Stigma to isolation. Isolation to suffering. Schizophrenics can feel so alone. Human Beings can feel so alone.

'Gratitude in so many ways is so dramatically missing in the world today. Without gratitude nothing is enough.' A short film exhibiting the experience of gratitude and the possibility of its part in your life.

Schizophrenia is so enormously powerful. It changes the lives of patients so deeply. This Psychiatrist is certain that when there is a true human connection and an openness with the patient, outcomes transform.

I've often wondered how many leaders have faced themselves with the question ‘would I follow myself?‘ And, how many are courageous enough to follow the seemingly untrodden path of knowing themselves.

Carlos Enrique Araujo has experienced perhaps the greatest of all tragedies. Yet he chooses to see the world, and those in it, through a quite unexpected lens. Perhaps it points us to the whereabouts of true wealth.

This film concerns the terrifying experience of being seen. And there is no modern day pacing to carry you through this film. No drama to help frayed attention. Such is the quiet and subtle experience of the profound.

'I thought the best part of me was the actually the worst thing I could do.' The opening to a perhaps disturbing yet hopeful two minute film portrait. For those who are holding back and know it. Or perhaps don't.

From the opening question ‘Would the boy you once were be inspired by the man you’ve become?’, this short film might sit uncomfortably for many. Uncomfortable and inspiring in the same breath.

Does the pace of this world cause you to falter? Does it sometimes make you want to fill your lungs with available air and scream ‘stop this ride I want to get off’? A film about the experience of the introvert.

A dramatic story, pointing to a human resilience which I believe is more common than we suppose. It’s told through an uncommon depth of observation. And wonders if there is more to us than the series of events we've been through.

When did you last declare what you need? When did you last speak it aloud and into the world with a knowing, a steely certainty born of the challenging and conscious work of uncovering what it is that you truly need?

A film about the depths of a journey into cancer, and faith. Maybe everything we need in life is right in front of us, yet we choose not to see it. Maybe life shakes us until we wake up. And maybe if we don’t take notice, the shaking gets stronger and stronger.

Might the causes of poverty lie deeper than just physical need. And might the way out lie with our ability to see ourselves together, as the same.’ An extraordinary and humbling experience. A film about the often missed nature of poverty.

’Perhaps it’s our superiority that keeps us from our own life. And our capacity for humility that leads us to it.’ A film concerning our capacity to see without judgment.

‘Perhaps we can never truly love another until we fall in love with ourselves.' A film about nature of love, self acceptance and the collision of soul mates.

Scilla, a three times Nobel Peace Prize nominee, has held on to a profound question for much of her life. How can you deal with superior force without using force yourself?

Might we all hold the capacity to see light in the darkness, however that darkness chooses to appear. The stoic experience of a holocaust survivor.

‘Perhaps the lives of those close to us cry out for us to take notice of our own.’ This is a film about family. And the challenge and opportunity of unconditional acceptance.