A bold venture
Potsdam, Germany, August 8-17, rerun in Berlin, September 1-8.
‘At the Globians Festival we like to know and show more about cultures of the world, which in our understanding is more than just an exhibition platform for ethnological films. The need for a global understanding of regional issues may give birth to a new type of individual lifestyle…’
This is an amazing, beautiful festival!!
Check it out:
“From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.
It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.”
You’ll find more teaser videos, background information and even the whole movie as a free download on storyofstuff.com
(Thanks to Melanie)
Check them out!
The Global Oneness Project is a web-based video initiative exploring how the simple notion of oneness can be lived in our increasingly complex world.
We’re traveling the globe interviewing creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the fundamental understanding that we are all connected and thus bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world. Our living library of films is available for free from our website or on DVD for events and educational use.
We are committed to documenting what is being born during this time of planetwide transformation. While we are confronted with unmistakable signs that our current way of life is no longer sustainable, inspiring and innovative people and programs are blossoming in all areas of our collective society. From a pay-it-forward café in Ahmedabad, to a youth program that brings African wisdom to Los Angeles, from the General Secretary of the Andean Nations, to the spiritual guardian of Ayers Rock, our film subjects live and work with many of the following values, attitudes, and beliefs:
* We are responsible to each other, the earth, and future generations.
* There are enough resources for us all, if we share.
* Free exchanges of information allow for greater, collective creative potential.
* Love, care and compassion have the power to transform the fabric of society.We hope that by showing the diverse ways oneness is expressed—in the fields of sustainability, conflict resolution, spirituality, art, economics, indigenous culture, and social justice—others will be inspired to create solutions to personal and community challenges from their own lived understanding of oneness.
Ein Dokumentarfilm von Udo Maurer, Österreich/Luxemburg 2007, Premiere gestern in der Kulturbrauerei in Berlin, in Anwesenheit des Regisseurs.
Tja.
Die Presse mag den Film, das Publikum mag den Film, der Regisseur mag seinen Film.
Das verwirrt mich einen Moment. Mich hat der Film empört, mich macht er wütend. Ich versuche, zu verstehen und meinem Empfinden Sprache zu geben.
Ich habe einen Film über Wasser erwartet, so ja auch der Titel auf Plakat und Flyer. Über das lebendige Wesen von Wasser, über Wasser als lebenserhaltende Substanz, über die Schönheit von Wasser, über die Bedeutung von Wasser für jedes Lebewesen und diesen Planeten, über die Verschmutzung von Wasser, über die Gefährdung von Wasser. Ich habe erwartet, dass der Film versucht, Wasser zu verstehen, zu respektieren und über Empathie einen tiefen Wunsch, es zu schützen, entstehen lässt.
As flashy as the title may sound, let’s give them another flashy name, let’s call them renegades of architecture. Working with what is there (which is mostly considered garbage) they are creating sustainable and affordable housing. As Michael Reynolds, the architect who builds ‘earthships’ since the seventies (with much opposition of local authorities, so that you wonder about their interests…) put it: ‘I don’t care about anything but the fucking planet!’
Earthships are earth-sheltered autonomous buildings made of tires rammed with earth, which are usually arranged in “U” or horseshoe shaped modules. Each tire is rammed full of earth manually using a sledge hammer. Windows on the sunny side admit light and heat. The open end of the “U” shaped structure faces South in the northern hemisphere, and North in the southern hemisphere, so that the house will catch maximum sunlight in the colder months. An Earthship is designed to interface with its environment wherever possible and create its own utilities. (via Wikipedia)
See the trailer of the documentary ‘Garbage Warrior’ by Oliver Hodges, featuring Reynolds and his struggles.
Also: These buildings are affordable and you can participate and learn how to make them more and more all over the world. Google ‘earthship’, search for it on youtube, check out our links - and spread the word! Again: This is do-it-yourself stuff! You don’t have to wait. You just find some people and you can take on the responsibility to create a more sustainable future now…
How to find Earthships and Garbage Warriors:
Brighton Earthship (England)
Earthship Austria
Earthship Biotecture (US)
Earthship Biotecture (Europe, site in french and english)
not too far from Earthships: Bubble Buildings (german, english, spanish)
‘6 billion Others’, an ongoing project by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, aims to draw a portrait of contemporary humankind by asking questions about universal values and attempts to reveal universality and individuality of each person.
This is just one project of Yann Arthus-Bertrand, and he’s bringing it into a broader context with the creation of goodplanet.info (work in progress), which aims to provide all information on sustainable development and its challenges to learn and commit. Plus there is goodplanet.org, a non-profit organization, dedicated to the promotion of sustainable development.
Please be aware of that. And please be aware that socalled free trade is an invention that destroys lifes, cultures and our planet.
Also we do not have to go to the rain forest, to India or North America, the same thing is happening in Finland, where indigenous people are being marginalized and robbed of their rights, land is being taken and robbed of its resources, governments are backing corporations.
Watch this documentary: Last Yoik In Sami Forests?, check the website: www.elonmerkki.net
The shift, the change will come through us, through people who speak up, who demand their rights, who create lively cultures and lively democracies, who think and act as an interdependent world family, looking for ways from being dependend consumers to responsible producers.
We have to replace the well being of corporations again with the wellbeing of real people and real societies. We have to create and build new self-governing economies. Connect which each other, learn from each other.
Know more: Vandana Shiva on zmag.org
Connect: CivWorld Interdependence Day,
Find support: Post Carbon Institute (Assists societies in their efforts to relocalize communities and adapt to an energy constrained world.)
Transition Towns (Local responses to the challenges of climate change and peak oil. Relocalization, Network and Support)
Are you ready, then shift along…
This first one is from 2006, created by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, two educators from the United States. Their intention was/is to help children learn and grow so that they may become successful digital, global citizens…
Well, I guess this intention is to be discussed, however take a look at what our children should know. Some of the info is quite startling. Plus: The thing already is two years old…
Here you find also a wikispace around the project.
And so now we shift into 2007. That’s the trailer of ‘Shift The Movie’. Again: Really some valid and startling info in here. And some sign that ’shift’ might hit the mainstream pretty soon…Waddayathink?
“MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them. [...]“
I’m looking forward to see it in german cinemas. Check this adress for trailers and information and you can order a copy here.
Everytime exciting to see that japanese people seem to be basically affected to absurdity… “oh - ahh”… even the japanese on-screen graphic design is kind of… hum… “outstanding”! (Which is no offense at all - all japanese guys i’ve met were very friendly, good fellows)
Nevertheless the topic is a nice picture for man intentionally taking an influence on nature and the power behind it. Find other - a little more serious & aesthetic - videos here.
Dieser Film ist wow! So gut, dass es ihn gibt, unbedingt anschauen!!! Please watch this movie!
Er zeigt das Ausmass, das die Entdeckung und Förderung des Öls auf die Entwicklung unserer Wirtschaft und unserer Gesellschaft hat und das Ausmass der Umweltzerstörung, der Gewalt und der Menschenrechtsverletzungen, die dadurch verursacht werden. Unser aktueller Lebensstandart basiert auf Öl und ist von ihm abhängig…..Für viele von euch bestimmt nicht neu, trotzdem glaube ich, dass sich die wenigsten wirklich über das Ausmass und die Auswirkungen dieser Tatsache bewusst sind.
Website of the movie: www.crudeimpact.com
let me share some humpback images, songs and activism… _saludos!
lars
