Many of my decisions are made with the future in mind. Imagining a young person living in 2050 (I'll be 57) asking me if I did all I could during my lifetime to help in the global reduction of emissions to mitigate the worst impacts of the climate crisis frightens me. I have done a lot but all I could? Certainly not. When I do learn new pieces of information I try to adjust my thoughts and actions to that…
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Babylon 2022
For most of 2022, I grappled with the question, does art matter? Does it have the propensity to engage an individual and change their pattern of thinking or behaviour? Of course, art is created with no intention, with the exception of expression. Expressing a feeling onto a canvas in any medium can elicit great relief in a person, and if another witnesses the creation and is able to either understand themselves, or the feeling better, it makes for more of…
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No 2012
Saying no is an inherently negative response even when it's to protect personal, familial or national safety. As activists, we are used to saying no. No to this, no to that. We've started to get better at saying no, and offering solutions, "but how about this instead?". No to that and yes to this. But, what if saying no, in and of itself, was a positive, hopeful response.
No, through its poster and marketing campaign shoots rainbows right through the…
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971
"So shines a good deed in a weary world"
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Inherent Vice 2014
Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix giving an iconic stoned performance) slaps himself in the face multiple times throughout his bumbling investigation to wake-up and be present. However, Doc is also slapped punched, kicked, shoved, beaten and thrown by almost everyone he meets. The world he's smoking his way through is trying so hard to get through to him, that advertisements on TV start talking directly to him. This brave new corporate world is co-opting the hippie movement, and trying to sell…
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Persona 1966
Persona. Why do we present ourselves differently with different people? Why do we have multiple versions of ourself? Does it make us happier when we are accepted by others who perceive us of something we're not or just more confused about who we are? These questions are the beginning of what Bergman is interested in exploring in Persona.
The film is about a theatre actress who while performing one night suddenly stops speaking. She either is incapable of moving and…
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