Reads tagged with “film”
How Memory Makes Us and Breaks Truth: The Rashomon Effect and the Science of How Memories Form and Falter in the Brain
“We are our memory… that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.”
Naomi Shihab Nye’s Beloved Ode to Kindness, Animated
“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.”
A Scientist’s Advice on Healing: A Soulful Animated Poem About Getting to the Other Side of Heartbreak
“Try to accept this fat red hurt is your starting point.”
Murmuration: A Stunning Animated Poem About Our Connection to Nature and to Each Other
A collaborative praise song for “indifference banished by love.”
Singularity: Marie Howe’s Ode to Stephen Hawking, Our Cosmic Belonging, and the Meaning of Home, in a Stunning Animated Short Film
“For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Remember?”
Growing Through Grief: Derek Jarman on Gardening as Creative Redemption, Consecration of Time, and Training Ground for Presence
“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer.”
Proximity: A Meditative Tree-Inspired Visual Poem About Reaching for Something You Can’t Quite Grasp
Soulful sylvan consolation partway between David Byrne, Bill T. Jones, and the Buddha.
How Snails “Run” for Love: A Sensual Interlude from the Symphony of Evolution
A rare and rapturous glimpse of the slow double embrace by which some of Earth’s tenderest creatures make more of themselves.
Wander: Natascha McElhone Reads Hermann Hesse’s 100-Year-Old Love Letter to Trees in a Virtual Mental Health Walk Through Kew Gardens
“In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfill themselves according to their own laws… to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree.”
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