Video: Devil’s Gold
Roughly 300 miners a day climb two miles up Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen mountain and then descend more than 900 yards in their search for “devil’s gold.” This is one miner’s story of hard work, courage, and suffering all in the name of family.
Video: Exposed
Ingrid, a young drama student, finds herself in the middle of an increasingly uncomfortable situation, as her ensemble and the play’s director discuss whether she should be performing a full-frontal nude scene. Magnus, once a promising theatre director who is now trying to get his career back on track, awkwardly navigates the discussion in the wake of MeToo.
Video: “Hope” by Emily Dickinson | A Film by Robert Isenberg
“Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –
Video: America’s Native Prisoners of War
Aaron Huey’s effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people — appalling, and largely ignored — compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson.
Video: Nat’s Story | Their Love
Nat experiences oppression, xenophobia and misgendering from their own family. Their mother has a spiritual experience that reveals the importance of honoring their child’s nonbinary identity. The film parallels crossing the US-Mexico border and traversing the gender binary.
Robin Davidson: Mrs. Schmetterling Kneels in a Garden
Mrs. Schmetterling is tired. Her imagination is
pressed like a tiny chestnut blossom between the pages
of old letters and recipes, a book of days.
Video: Grace & Dignity
This video is about faces and bodies and how we move them, which is far, far more important than we realize. This crazy journey begins with Audrey Hepburn, runs through German and Chinese philosophy, and, by various and sundry routes, arrives back at each and every one of us.
Christiana Spens: In the cinema, my father’s unspeakable childhood finally surfaced
Catharsis was a communal experience: although an individual might seek treatment on their own, their healing would require some form of safe social interaction,
Derrick Z. Jackson: The People of the People’s Trail
I am the very accidental Black nature lover.
Video: 50 years off-grid | architect-maker paradise amid NorCal redwoods
The architect Charles Bello has spent the past 52 years restoring forests from logging and protecting the land on his 400-acre Bello Ranch in Northern California. Here’s what he’s learned along the way.
Bhikshuni Ubbiri: A Voice Calling Back
84,000 daughters, all named Jiva, have died and been buried here in this boundless cemetery you call a world.
Video: Becoming
This timelapse video from the Dutch director Jan van IJken tracks the development of a single-celled zygote into the hatched larva of an alpine newt. (6 minutes)
Video: A Small Antelope Horn
Sitting by the fire with a nomadic tribe, a physicist ponders the many shapes of wisdom.
Herman Melville: Art
In placid hours well-pleased we dream
Of many a brave unbodied scheme.
But form to lend, pulsed life create,
What unlike things must meet and mate…
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