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Video: Heading South

In this poignant understated film, eight year old Chasuna travels from her home on the Mongolian grassland to visit her father who lives in the big city. 

April 20, 2024 · 4 Comments

Video: Between Earth & Sky

Renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni studies “what grows back” after a disturbance in the rainforest canopy. In 2015, her rope snapped on a research climb, and she fell fifty feet from a tree and nearly died. After making a miraculous recovery, Nalini begins to explore a new research subject – herself.

April 14, 2024 · 4 Comments

Video: Isabella Kirkland | The Beauty of Wildlife — And an Artistic Call to Protect it

Investigating humanity’s relationship to nature, she shares work that takes a creative stand against ecological despair — and quietly urges climate action through permanent images of vanishing wildlife.

April 7, 2024 · 2 Comments

Video: The Emperor of Time

The strange and sordid tale of Eadweard Muybridge, the man who accidentally invented motion pictures. The film is told from the point of view of Muybridge’s abandoned son and viewed completely through a nineteenth century early cinema contraption called a mutoscope.

April 6, 2024 · Leave a comment

Jack Stewart: El Greco’s Barmaid

In small town life, lovers are grist
for any gossip’s mill, even when the barmaid
stays at home, thinking about the cool grass
by the river, watching the moon pass

March 31, 2024 · 5 Comments

Video: Wendell Berry reads his poem “The Peace of Wild Things”

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

March 23, 2024 · 6 Comments

Joan E. Bauer: The Poet of the Camera

By 1922, chief cameraman, eagerly
innovating: gauze over the lens to soften a face,
frame of black velvet to darken the eyes.

March 14, 2024 · 6 Comments

IMAN MOHAMED: Global Protests for a Free Palestine | Photo Essay

Voices are echoing worldwide as tens of thousands of people take to the streets to demand an immediate cease-fire and an end to Israel’s war on Gaza.

March 14, 2024 · 3 Comments

Video: “Mauches” by Angele Ellis

I never learned la bella lingua except
to write you one letter in schoolgirl Italian
from college, a letter you loved so much
it fell into sharp creases

March 9, 2024 · 6 Comments

Richard Krawiec: Looking at Gaza

In the Israeli siege of Gaza there are so many photos and videos of horror it’s difficult to keep track of them. Every day we see more and more atrocities on social media. We are overloaded with evidence of innocents being killed, maimed; neighborhoods left in rubble.

March 5, 2024 · 11 Comments

Rusty Long: Survivalist Architecture

Whether the apocalypse du jour involves the arrival of peak oil, a Mayan prophecy predicting planetary disaster, or a run of the mill zombie apocalypse, there are some key design features that every architect can focus on to ensure their clients are better prepared for any end times scenario.

March 2, 2024 · 6 Comments

Video: Dernier Round

In a Parisian suburb, a promising young boxer must find a way to finance the future of his little sister, a piano prodigy.

February 24, 2024 · 2 Comments

Patricia A. Nugent: Healing Japan

I dreamed Peggy invited me to go to Japan with her. That’s all I remember, her asking me. I don’t know how I responded.

February 15, 2024 · 6 Comments

Video: Winter

Jamie Scott: “Winter is my third seasonal time-lapse film and the second collaboration with composer Jim Perkins. It is the culmination of 5 years of shooting across New York State … Continue reading

February 11, 2024 · 5 Comments

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