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THE DUGOUT - Communities working together - documentary - 19 young people, off the grid on an island in the Yukon River, must carve a sea-going canoe true to an ancient design that will carry them off the island. In the process they will live together bonded by creative work, and transform themselves. This film is about the redemptive power of art and about the power of community to heal community. (info - richard@firstnationsfilms.com) https://lnkd.in/g5KtHn6T

THE DUGOUT - Communities working together - documentary - 75 min. 19 young people, off the grid on an island in the Yukon River, must carve a sea-going canoe true to an ancient design that will carry them off the island. In the process they will live together bonded by creative work, and transform themselves. This film is about the redemptive power of art and about the power of community to heal community. (INFO - richard@firstnationsfilms.com) https://lnkd.in/g5KtHn6T

Read the FULL review from #BobLefsetz on the #LefsetzLetter now: https://lnkd.in/eiRDDVU #ImmediateFamily #ImmediateFamilyFilm #FilmReview

Sweetland is a flawed character drama stuck between story and message that is carried by an endearing performance from Mark Lewis Jones. Read more in our review. #MovieReview #moviereviews #sweetland

Creativity is not a talent. Ken Robinson. This film shows the freedom of play. The plan was for the children to draw spirals and then make long strips of clay to cover the spirals... Many of the children drew a spiral and other things. Most of the children explored the clay and did not just create snake like forms to press onto the paper... one child used their pencil to poke the clay - and others were intrigued and did the same - after a while this became the new way of collecting small amounts of clay to put onto the paper. The atelierista did not stop them. There was permission to explore, and to get to know the clay. To feel the resistance of the clay as they pushed through and how the pencil then was covered in clay residue - which they all cleaned off with a sense of fascination. There was enough time to not only do the spirals but also the exploration. Creativity needs permission (so no need to be afraid) time (so if it doesn't work as expected there is time to find out why and/or try again to make it work - sometimes the not working leads to something new and exciting). Creativity also needs play and play literate adults. Film taken at @dorothysnot #originallearning #originallearningapproach #play #creativity #permission (for more on permission check @nonaorbach ) #riskyplay #riskfylldlekochundervisning https://lnkd.in/dNfTbKzr

"Parallel Lives: A Tale of Children and Parrots" Step into a world where parallel lives intertwine, where innocence takes flight alongside vibrant feathers. In this captivating short film, director Aravind masterfully weaves a tale of interconnectedness and wonder. Follow the journey of three children and three parrots as they navigate the parallel landscapes of their lives. Through stunning visuals and heartfelt storytelling, we witness the echoes of existence mirrored between these unlikely companions. As the director delicately explores the beauty of innocence and the resilience of nature, audiences are transported to a realm where the boundaries between human and avian blur. Prepare to be enchanted by this unique cinematic experience, where parallel lives converge in a symphony of life and discovery. Don't miss "Parallel Lives," a short film that reminds us of the magic that surrounds us and the beauty of our shared existence.

#ThrowBackThursday This week, we've dug into the JPH collection and located another excellent film analysis; Hank Nelson's 'Kokoda: Pushing the Front Line', https://buff.ly/3Yj8asa Abstract: From the release of Damien Parer's Kokoda Frontline in 1942, there have been several high quality documentary films and many popular and scholarly histories on the battles on the Kokoda Track, but until Alister Grierson's Kokoda of 2006 there was no feature film. Initially well received by an Australian public, Kokoda raises several important questions for historians. Makers of films on historical events properly draw on contemporary images: they are evocative of a time and place, guides to all that detail of dress, manners and possessions that take a crew so long to get right and that the pedantic delight in criticising, and they provide templates for shot composition. But the images in films are not subjected to the same scrutiny that historians apply to written sources. In Grierson's Kokoda, images are drawn from somewhere on the Track and relocated and, in one case, taken from another battle and another place. Film critics were concerned with placing Kokoda within the history of war films and evaluating it against other war films. When film critics considered whether Kokoda was ‘real’ or ‘convincing’, they were judging whether the behaviour of soldiers in battle moved and engaged an audience. Almost no film critics considered the film's accuracy as history, and it does repeat many popular errors about the Kokoda battles. Finally, it is interesting to consider what has been omitted and whether this has been the inevitable consequence of reducing an event spread over 100 kilometres of Track and several months to 92 minutes of film time, and whether the choices have diminished the end product as film or as history. More historians need to make themselves familiar with film and engage more readily in the public evaluation of those films claimed to be based on ‘true’ stories and illuminating what have come to be accepted as determining events in national histories. You can watch Kokoda Front Line (1942) here> https://buff.ly/4flEOiT #PacificHistory #Film #Cinema #Nationalism #WorldWar #MissedInHistory #History

New Post: ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ review: The death knell the DCEU deserves - https://lnkd.in/gjJeRttQ - There couldn’t be a more appropriate way to end 2023, the year of superhero box office disappointments — Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, Blue Beetle, The Marvels — than James Wan’s floundering, mind-numbing Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, which seems set to perform just as poorly. Gone is the Saturday morning cartoon sensibility of the first Aquaman, a fun (if half-baked) undersea romp that went on to gross a billion dollars. Ticket sales are by no means the arbiter of quality, but the tides are clearly turning. When it comes to big IP, mainstream audiences are no longer willing to settle for mediocre output, which would be a kind way to describe The Lost Kingdom.The sequel plays, for the most part, like a retread of Wan’s first Aquaman, a 2018 Christmas hit. Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) learns what it means to rule Atlantis — the hidden submarine kingdom, whose gripes with the surface involve real-world climate concerns — while fighting off the high-tech, bug-eyed Black Manta/David Kane (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), a diver and mercenary out for revenge — who eventually makes way for a different villain. There’s even a desert detour en route to a secret throne, and a plot involving a powerful new trident, all of which culminates in a familiar battle involving numerous undersea factions. Jonathan Rhys Davies’ adorable crustacean ruler Brine King makes a brief but short-lived appearance too (give that man his spin-off).But if The Lost Kingdom follows the first film’s formula this closely, then it ought to be easy to replicate its delights. Instead, it discards most of what made Aquaman enjoyable and replaces it with dead air, tonal dissonance, and a complete lack of filmmaking energy, making it a fitting closing chapter to the decade-long failed experiment that was the DCEU.What is the plot of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom? Credit: Warner Bros Pictures The film’s opening has immense promise with hints of the kind of silliness that makes Wan’s movies work. (See also: his gonzo horror pastiche Malignant.) The prologue sees Aquaman astride a giant, glowing seahorse as he advances to knock some pirate heads together. This re-introduction — during which Momoa muses philosophically: "They say everybody’s good at something. Me? I talk to fish" — is the closest The Lost Kingdom comes to capturing the first film’s Lisa Frank pencil case energy. It even doubles down by revealing the whole scene to be a recollection by Aquaman, narrated to his newborn son, Arthur Jr., which he re-enacts with action figures, hinting further at a childlike spark.Unfortunately, that’s as far as the movie gets before things start to fall apart. As Aquaman gets us up to speed on recent developm

This is going to be increasingly important for 2K resolution films of the 2010s in a 4k era. Digital resolutions cannot be remastered in the same way as film masters. Upscaling does not provide more detailed pixels.

Awesome amplification by Ryan Gosling. Here’s why it’s extra important. Research conducted & shared in Sally Helgesen & Marshall Goldsmith ‘s book How Women Rise, reveal that: 😮💨Women are more likely to build up others & self sacrifice. Women tend to talk about winning as a collaborative endeavor 🤼 Women need to fight to maintain confidence 🧠 Women need to remind themselves why they’re deserving What are ways men can transform toxic & exclusionary male behavior? Stay tuned! #equityandinclusion #shiftconversationalhabits #equitymatters #amplifyher