The 2001 documentary "Rivers and Tides" on Andy Goldsworthy's art process and work is free to view, in the US, on Tubi.
Slow, reflective, fluid. Moments that stuck with me when I first saw it decades ago, and then freshly struck me when I rewatched it this year. Musings on failure, artistic practice, and flows.
The documentary was not broadcast in #Canada. Hansen said the reason B.C.’s wood pellet industry is a focus in #UnitedKingdom is the #Drax Power Station in #England.
Impressions from day two at border:none 2023 in Nuremberg with @adactio, @vitalyf, @jkphl, @marcthiele and more. (Post will be updated with more images from the afternoon later tonight.)
#documentary / On The previous Israeli attempt to encourage "voluntary emigration" of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip
The proposals being heard against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Gaza, to transfer the residents of the Strip to other countries, are not new. Dr. Amri Shapiro Ravi, a historian of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, examined in his research a similar attempt made by the Israeli government immediately after the Six Day War.
In the months after the Six Day War, the Committee for Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories drafted a document that was meant to outline the lines of action for controlling the conquered territories. The first and most important paragraph defined in the draft document: "A policy aimed at the departure of a maximum number of Arabs from the held territories".
From then on, Israel consistently dealt with the question of how to encourage the Palestinian residents of the territories to leave the West Bank and the Gaza Strip - without provoking international criticism against it. Unlike the West Bank, where about a quarter of the residents left immediately after the war, almost no resident left the Gaza Strip.
Initially, Israel hoped that a political agreement would solve the refugee problem and determine in an orderly manner the fate of the Gaza Strip and its residents. As time passed, when it was understood that a political agreement and a solution to the refugee problem were not on the horizon - Israel moved to a policy of encouraging emigration. It was a quiet policy aimed at pushing people to leave the Gaza Strip individually - whether by providing incentives to leave or pushing them to seek a better life by deliberately maintaining a low standard of living in the Strip. At the same time, Israeli representatives made efforts to reach agreements with foreign countries - including in Latin America - that would be willing to absorb Palestinian refugees for a fee.
I revisited the #documentary Grizzly Man last night. Still holds up - a beautiful but insane account of a man who made it his life’s mission to protect bears in Alaska from poachers. Did he do more harm than good for these bears? Worth a watch just for the footage alone, although some is a bit unsettling. @movies
I'm in these #documentary#films about #OldGrowth & importance of protecting them. I also talk about how my overseas family suffered a lot from #ecocide & how I started hitting frontlines to fight back, after seeing my family's homelands decimated & seeing similar deforestation happen in #BritishColumbia#Canada#VancouverIsland - where I live. I've been committed to fighting ecocide since 1992. This isn't a trend for me. This is life.
I thought I was fairly well versed in the #QueerHistory of US film. The interviews gave me info I didn't know about, e.g., creators fighting specific behind-the-scenes fights to keep gay subtext onscreen. Plus funny anecdotes, & a deleted scene from "Spartacus".
Something I'll say about my decades of journalism, videography, and general media activism: I was so focused on being an anti-capitalist I forgot to remember the fact that "non-profit" never meant "non-fundraising"; I let indie cinemas keep all the box office takings, took no revenue, and paid everyone but myself, and neglected to secure any sustainable plan. Most of that was back before the rise of social media and online promotion. I was very "indy media" (as well as often IndyMedia!) Credit where it's due to folks being way smarter now than I ever was! #GuerrillaJournalism#GuerrillaFilmmaking#documentary
Please enjoy learning from this 1974 #documentary about life in #Vietnam - a year before full national liberation. It shows the peoples' struggles against imperialism, reconstruction/rebuilding efforts & unity of the common peoples.
This afternoon I watched the #documentary Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation (2015), directed by Barbara Kopple, which oddly doesn't have a Wikipedia entry. But you can read about it. It was mostly filmed during the 2012-13 election season so it feels like a historical oddity now. Like, Romney specifically doesn't seem like "the worst" of America, nor does Obama seem like "the best." Our value system has been reoriented. Will The Nation be able to keep pace with that?
Now #watching Suburban Wildlife (2019) directed by Imogen McCluskey. It's an Australian #film about four friends coming of age after college. Specifically about their coming to grips with one of their members moving away.
I have a couple more teed up but I won't tell you what they are until I'm further along. I might end up skipping the last one.
Watching #KingOfClones, a #Netflix#documentary (caveat viewer) and less than 11 minutes in, the subject, Dr. #Hwang#Woo-suk says the line that marks the current boundary I know people like #PeterThiel, and governments like the #US and #China, are actively (and very secretively) trying to break: "We cannot simply make #DNA out of a vacuum."
When we can soon do so, be afraid; be very afraid.
It's this kind of technology that will fundamentally alter humanity forever, not #LLM's and #AI alone.