Because "interesting" is used by folk, frequently those with power and money, to describe something they can do nothing about or something they want to research or something they like to play with in their heads before chatting to similar people. It is a declaration laden with unstated values (the bootom line being, "this makes me want to chat") and, as is the case with so much in these people's worlds, thinking replaces doing - indeed thinking BECOMES doing. Is it "interesting" that the world economic climate is decalred a catastrophe, or that there are people in my village who find afternoon TV engrossing? I guess so - but so what?
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interesting idea you find interesting terrible, Craig, why? regards, U. CRAIG NEWNES <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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It's a terrible sign of something when it is declared "interesting"
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Thought this looked interesting - see below.
Lousie
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THE
SHAPE OF WATER narrated by Susan Sarandon
http://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com
<http://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com/>
"Kum-Kum Bhavnani has made a film about hope and about courage - with
women are in the act of creating a more just planet."
Susan Sarandon, Academy Award Winner
"The world is a place fighting for change. Kum-Kum Bhavnani's 'The
Shape
of Water' reminds us how to hope."
Jeff Zimbalist, Director, Favela Rising
"There is another globalization at work and that is the globalization of
citizens connecting to each other."
- Vandana Shiva, The Shape of Water
Dear Friends
I write to tell you about the feature documentary THE SHAPE OF WATER
(http://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com
<http://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com/> )
Filmed over four years on three continents, THE SHAPE OF WATER (70
minutes, February
2006:
http://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com
<http://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com/> ) is an inspirational testament
to grassroots activism.
SHAPE skilfully interweaves the stories of Khady (Senegal), Oraiza
(Brazil), Bilkusben (India), DonaAntonia (Brazil), Gila (Jerusalem) and
Vandana Shiva (India) -- seeking to end oppressive social, political,
and economic practices in remote corners of the world.
The women abandon female genital mutilation, tap for rubber to protect
the rainforest, protect the biodiversity of the planet and oppose
military occupation.
The film works well in classes that discuss women's issues and
struggles, globalization and development, and the daily life of women in
Latin America, Africa, Asia and in the Middle East. The film makes the
abstract and pervasive issue of globalisation comprehensible in human
terms.
Class discussion topics could include
the various
impacts of
globalization (on the rainforest, the wisdom of
large dams, biodiversity in agricultural
practices) and how and why people are
moved to make changes in their lives.
I have also used the film to make links
between plastic surgery in the US and
FGM in other parts of the world.
Narrated by Susan Sarandon, the documentary has already won several
awards -- Best Feature Documentary (Reel Sisters of the Diaspora,
Brooklyn), Best Director, Documentary (San Francisco Women's Film
Festival), and World Cinema Award (DC Independent Film Festival) and
Honorable Mention, Audience Award Amnesty International Film Festival
(Vancouver). It has also screened around the United States and in Abu
Dhabi, Trinidad, Rome, Barcelona, Durban, the UK and Ankara. It screened
at FESPACO (Burkina Faso) in February 2007, has been nominated for Best
Documentary at the Tenerife Film Festival and at the New Zealand Human
Rights Film
Festival in May
2007.
If you are interested in knowing more,
please go to the website where you can
see a 3-minute trailer of the film, and
purchase it from the storefront.
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