After the sudden death of her mother from an accidental gunshot, Minda Martin pieces together her family’s history through the voices of those left behind. Shot in Super 8 and video, this intimate portrait gives voice to a working-class family in the American Southwest, shaped by poverty, loss, and resilience. Blending personal testimony with social critique, the film becomes both an act of remembrance and a stark reflection on life at the margins of contemporary America.
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Tues March 25, 5:30pm. It started with an ungodly racket. Half air-raid siren and half screeching feedback, the noise pierced all ears within a half-mile radius. Diners in a restaurant on 15th Avenue wondered if Seattle was under attack. Other Capitol Hillers optimistically attributed the racket to a garden-variety fire or freeway pileup, albeit one serious enough to require the screaming attention of every ambulance and fire truck in town Meanwhile, those in The Stranger's offices gazed down onto the source of all the trouble--eight or 10 guys in sharp suits and hats, paired off on corners, where they alternately ran jumper cables to screaming siren-boxes and bleated through distorted megaphones.
UntitledThe promise of a perpetually technological updated world. Other forms of marketing and addiction.
UntitledCassius Clay is the world champion. 1967. The Vietnam war. Ali refuses to enlist.
My adored cat Zouina died a week before the tragedy; a week after, my garden died.
UntitledAs the title indicates, the parents of the author read transcripts of the dreams he has had about them over the last few years. His parents knew nothing about these dreams before this moment. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
Untitled“My spiritual journey had taken me from the land of Ahuramazda to the realm of Allah. I came to believe there is only one God, the God of light, goodness and joy. A God who abides not on the mountains or in the oceans, nor the cities or the sanctuaries, but in the human souls who worship there”. Aryana Farshad.
“The material of myth is the material of our life, the material of our body, and the material of our environment. A living, vital mythology deals with these”. During the final years of his life, Joseph Campbell embarked on a lecture tour in which he drew together all that he had learned about what he called the “one great story” of humanity. These remarkable talks were filmed and are presented here in the order and manner in which Campbell himself intended: 1. Psyche and Symbol: the psychological impulse for and response to myth; 2. The Spirit Land: how myths awakened American Indians to the mystery of life; 3. On Being Human: the emergence of myth in early hunter-gatherer societies; 4. From Goddess to God: the gradual shift from the Goddess to male, warlike deities; 5. The Mystical Life: non-biblical mythic strains that helped shape the Western spirit.
Untitled“Myth comes from the same zone as dream... from the great biological ground whatever it may be. They are energies and they are matters of consciousness”.
UntitledAfter WWII, Americans teenagers discovered leisure . They no longer had to work to support their families, and they had almost nothing to do. It seems like a cliche now, but bored teenagers were a completely new phenomenon, young minds eager to explore the limits of perception and pleasurable experience. A wave of corporate and government educational videos, responded to the situation by presenting a world of fears and hidden dangers. They were designing the personalities of the future, standardized citizens, with a new set of behaviors and new fears and taboos.