Posts tagged “film

Behemoth Film Depicts Human Cost of Coal

Not to be confused with the Polish Metal band Behemoth, this is a Chinese movie. Zhao Liang’s film Behemoth provides a striking view of the environmental and health costs of coal mining and consumption in China. The film borrows its plot structure from Dante’s “Divine Comedy”, as a coal miner suffering from lung disease. This coal miner guides the audience through a modern-day hell, purgatory and heaven – the coal mines and cities of Inner Mongolia.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE


“Beyond Varanasi” Film – Death as a Spiritual Journey

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“Death is something everyone is scared of. All the people are scared of death. When death nears, they start crying. So when you embrace death, welcome death, ‘death’ will not come to you.”

Varanasi one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Many Hindus believe that death in the city will bring salvation.

There are holy men here who celebrate, rather than fear death. Death is not a fearsome concept, but a passing from the world of illusion. The film “Beyond Varanasi” explores this concept.

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“Khadak” Film – A Mongolian Nomad Must Confront His Destiny to Become a Shaman

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In this film, Mongolian nomads are kicked off their land and relocated to a soul crushing existence where they must work in a strip mine (a very common experience in much of the 3rd world today). However, a young Mongolian boy connects with his destiny to become a shaman and decides to rise up against this oppression.

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The Lie We Live [Video] – Are You Really Free? Think Again

Once our days were timeless. Now they are scheduled. We give our entire lives – and planet – to money. But what’s left over after the money? Once there was clean air, yet now it’s polluted. The soil was once pure and now it is toxic. One fifth of the world’s people are starving, even though there is enough food for all. The corporation’s main resource is us. As long we are money driven slaves, we’ll fight their wars, work in their factories and spend most of our lives trying to make a wage before we die.

But there is another way. We need to carve it out for ourselves. We need to think for ourselves. We need to have the courage to build a new and better world. We are a majority. The wealthy elite are a minority. Let’s not let them destroy our future.

Definitely a video that everyone should see. Very brilliant and thought provoking.


Nature is Speaking – Humans Need Nature, But Nature Doesn’t Need Us

Nature Is Speaking – Julia Roberts is Mother Nature | Conservation International (CI)

Nature has been here for billions of years. She has made and broken species greater than us. Our actions will determine our fate. Nature is prepared to evolve, are we?


The Planet 2006 (Film)

This Scandinavian production draws on some of the observational strategies of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, allowing us to reflect on patterns and phenomena of human and natural existence from both intimate and sweeping viewpoints.


Kogi Tribe Makes Film to Save World: Aluna

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20 years ago, a tribe in Columbia called the Kogi made a film about the world’s end.

They call themselves the Elder Brothers, and the rest of the world The Younger Brothers.

They predicted a rise in global temperature, storms and violence.

Yet we Younger Brothers did not heed their warning.

Now they’re trying to warn us, once again.

Will we heed their warning this time around?


Journey’s End – Icelandic Saga on Film

Coming Out in Spring 2013

A Six Part TV Series That Examines The Sagas From Archaeological and Literature Point of View.

Will be premiering in Iceland.

Trailer Found Here in Case Video Doesn’t Work .


Varg (of Burzum) And His Wife Marie Cachet Are Making a Film

Varg Vikernes goes on a  reverse journey through time and thought to a prehistoric era (about 30 000BC), up to a previous life when he was a little boy. He lives again in this little boy and understands the meaning of essential European rituals of that prehistoric time, that still may have a major influence on modern habits.

A primary idea of this film is that the ancient Neanderthal religion and philosophy (especially that of the Bear Cult) have a central but invisible role in European culture and religion. Marie Cachet believes that this ancient Bear cult offers an explanation for cave paintings, mythology, fairy tales and Yule.

The English Translation for the trailer can be found HERE. It is a literal translation of the Voluspa from the book of Sorcery and Religion in Ancient Scandanavia by Varg Vikernes.

The film will be available on Amazon in March 2013.

You can read Marie Cachet’s Atala Blog  for more information about the film as well as her ideas.