CFP: Yes Naturally / Ja Natuurlijk
Society is changing at an increasing speed and nobody knows where we are actually headed. Issues such as sustainability and biodiversity become intertwined with fairness and justice. How are we to build our common future? Instead of plunging into the ‘green hype’ without further notice, Yes Naturally asks the question: What is natural, and who or what decides? Are human beings the only ones who have a say or do bacteria, atmospheres, trees, animals, things and computers play a role as well? Over seventy artists from different continents present a multitude of propositions for alternative ways to perceive the world. Famous pioneers and promising artists among whom Francis Alys, Damien Hirst, Olafur Eliasson, Fischli & Weiss, Susan Hiller, Peter Fend, Natalie Jeremijenko, Marjetica Portc and Superflex, show humor and decisiveness.
Unlooked for relationships and co-evolution between humans and the environment are central to our focus. Yes Naturally does not choose for ‘nature’ and against ‘technology’, but rather shows how innovations contribute to co-creation and partnerships between human and nonhuman entities.
(Source: ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.ca)
Into Eternity, Michael Madsen, Finland, 2010 | intoeternitythemovie.com
“How is it possible to create oblivion and forgetting? How is it possible to make a facility like Onkalo disappear [from human memory] …”
The topic of this film is so chilling. Like watching a horror/science fiction version of Lord of the Rings (eternal fires, secret deep mountain tunnels, giant sealed gates, keepers of knowledge, total world destruction, etc) but styled as a documentary film. Even without rippling muscles displayed in extended battle scenes, you still know that hundreds and hundreds of people will die awful deaths for real. I imagine someday in the future, say 500 years from now, after a period of dark ages, some creatures, perhaps humans, will stumble upon (or intentionally seek) this burial chamber of nuclear waste, unleashing the almost forgotten, earth-destroying monster of Onkalo!
The problem of permanent knowledge transfer into the future that the scientists & experts are grappling with (impotently) in this film underlines just how impermanent human life (or the so-called technologically advanced, human-made repositories of knowledge) truly is (are). The use of nuclear energy to create devices that could then store nuclear waste (which could destroy the entire planet) simply annihilates the triumph of human reason.
we say we save trees by not turning them into paper. but we tear up the earth to mine paper’s replacement.
“If you see something that… looks human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and you feel for your hatchet.”
— Mr. Beaver, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Android Dreams by Samuel Cockedey
Bladerunner-inspired Tokyo timelapse (complete with Bladerunner music/audio).
