26For Dinesh Sabu, documentary is a “safe, mediated” way to process trauma and to “develop a language to understand it”.
Unbroken Glass Demo from Dinesh Sabu on Vimeo.
And now, Christopher Lee a.k.a. Charlemagne (who shed the blood of four-thousand Saxon men).
Dear people who don’t like Blade Runner, your opinion is bad and you should feel bad. As a consolation for being a bad, wrong person, here is Harrison Ford leaping through traffic in the future.
Speaking out against the seemingly purposeful omission of Natalie Portman’s dance double (surprise, she had a dance double!), and how the usage of face replacement and motion technology erased Sarah Lane, both literally and… literally.
My favorite Chicago-area music and movies festival is happening this weekend!! I’ve been so swamped with work that not only did I forget, I’ll actually be missing the whole damn thing. If you’re in the city and have a night to spare, check out this seriously awesome event (and blog about it, so I can live vicariously through you).
Just another shout-out to all you filmmakers/film fans who’d be interested in helping back a short film project. My friends have 3 days left to raise just over $1000 or else their project won’t get funded. If you’ve got some spare cash and are interested, click the above link to go to their indiegogo page.
Pancha Promo from Radical Dreamers on Vimeo.
In honor of the death of prophetic political filmmaker Sidney Lumet (and the state of politics in the US), here’s a rousing clip from Network (1976).
This woman, a BP-hired cleanup worker, has been documenting her physical deterioration due to constant contact with the oil spill and chemical dispersants for the past few months. This is a shocking, heartbreaking testimony from the interior of the BP cleanup - these people are sick. These people are suffering. These people are dying.
The worst part is, BP utilized these oil dispersants without knowing or acknowledging their potential side-effects; these chemicals, Benzine* and Corexit*, are paralyzing and killing people - not just the BP workers, but anyone who comes into contact with the Gulf - and BP isn’t paying for their health care.
People living all along the Gulf are finding their livelihoods destroyed and losing their own lives in the process because of BP’s gross negligence and the fact that hospitals are not admitting patients suffering the effects of contamination.
I deleted the text that’s been circulating because I found it to be inflammatory and missing the point. Reblogging this video will not call the attention of a news station, nor will it be proof you “care about your country”.
This is a global issue. These chemicals are in the water. Send this video to your local news stations and government seats. Write letters and make calls. Set up a relief fund if you can’t find one to connect with. That’s the only way to call attention to this.The woman in this video is named Jennifer Rexford. Follow her YouTube channel (which has more up-to-date videos) here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/jmrexford#p/u
Her e-mail and phone number are listed in her profile in case anyone wants to write or call her.Also, watch this news segment. This was uploaded onto Youtube back in February:
Spread the word and spread the information; this isn’t propaganda, this is actually happening to real people.
*You’ll note if you read both of these reports that at least HALF of the basic health risk/toxicity tests have not been run for either of these chemicals. Also, Corexit’s anemic I-guess-kinda-sorta-maybe notes on health risks.
(Source: firejustwaitingforfuel, via )
