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No Man’s Land – Kenya’s Women-Only Village.
Umoja is literally a no man’s land in Kenya – a matriarchal refuge where men are not allowed. The village, founded 25 years ago by Rebecca Lolosoli, is meant to be a safe haven for women and girls who want to escape abuse in the otherwise patriarchal society of the Samburu people, in northern Kenya.
Rebecca, a member of the Samburu tribe, now serves as the chief matriarch of ‘Umoja Usau Women’s Village’. Having witnessed occasional violence as a child, she slowly came to the conclusion that some of the traditional Samburu practices were inherently abusive towards women. So she began to speak out against these practices, in favour of widows, orphans, and victims of rape, female genital cutting, and forced marriage.
Rebecca’s outspoken attitude was met with a lot of resistance. Things got out of hand when she spoke up for a few women who were raped by British soldiers training nearby. Men in her village beat her up, and her husband did not protest on her behalf. So in 1990, she led a female exodus and started her own village.
http://www.odditycentral.com/news/no-mans-land-kenyas-women-only-village.html#more-47621 -
Chinese Primary School Replaces Nap Time With Meditation Session.
Most people will agree that nap time is one of the best things about kindergarten – which is why a Chinese primary school was severely criticized for trying to replace afternoon naps with meditation. The pilot meditation program at Shishan Shuben Primary School, in China’s Guangdong Province, ran for only two days before it was scrapped following a backlash. Parents apparently hated the idea, and the media reacted negatively to it as well.
According to news reports, notices were sent to parents before the new semester, informing them that the school was going to do away with mid-day naps and introduce guided meditation instead. When school started, the students were each given a piece of newspaper to sit on. They were then made to watch tutorial videos on how to meditate, featuring the school’s headmaster, Mr. Wu. Unfortunately, Wu’s directions did not have the intended effect – most of the students slept anyway. “He just keeps talking all the time and some of them have been falling asleep,” one little kid said.
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Timebank \ Arttu Lehtovaara \ Finland.
#shortfilm it's just seconds!
"The film is a futuristic view of a man trying to buy more lifetime for himself from an ATM-like machine.”
I was born in Turku, Finland in 1976, and I'm still living there. I study film and TV production for the first year. Like almost everybody else, I have loved movies all my life. But after seeing Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle, I knew I wanted to be a film-maker. The versatility and the possibility of bringing many art forms under the same roof are the most intriguing things about film to me.
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17.01.1922 \ Emilia Straszak, Marek Straszak \ Poland.
#shortfilm it's just seconds!
17.01.1922 is a documentary about my grandmother‘s life. The body stretched in time, material condensed in a human cell. We have visited places that are very important for her: the home of her childhood, the old factory where she used to work, places and things she touched. Somehow the story is very universal...The parallel perception of those two senses I am considering as the most important in my work. Recently I think the life give us incredible opportunities to feedback your thoughts in a form of short film - so that I liked the idea to make it in a 30 sec, it is just like one thought..."
Marek Straszak is interested in all kind of audiovisual experiments. Studying in DigitalClass (UdK Berlin), he actually comes from the photography/film "zone".
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Half a Minute of Eternity \ Frank Becker - Bernd Straub Molitor \ Germany.
#shortfilm it's just seconds!
"What we intended to create, was the modest sketch of a man "moving without moving" - travelling through space while just standing quietly by a river* (classical symbol of floating time). The perpetual space trip we're all taking as long as we live - usually without being aware of it."
Frank Becker, born in 1954 Solingen Germany, is a photographer.
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Follow the White Rabbit \ Sylvain Favardin - Ludmila Korenarova \ Belgium.
#shortfilm it's just seconds!
"This video represents an extract from the Interactive Story Follow the White Rabbit by lidu.The metaphor of dreaming, NO start - NO end, that's the whole concept. If you replay the video, you will see the Rabbit to start dreaming and waking up all over again. Due to the process of creation in Flash, everything was randomized (characters, the background, colors, sequences, the sound, etc.). The final result is completely unexpected because of the randomized Script.
"Authors Sylvain Favardin and Ludmila Korenarova (lidu) draw from a different cultural and life experience. Their projects open various possibilities of interaction, both intellectual and physical. Discover the Interactive Story Follow the White Rabbit by lidu at lidu.fr/followthewhiterabbit
http://artbychance.org/selections/2nd-edition/follow-the-white-rabbit.htm
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