Reads tagged with “film”

Bloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to Recover the Light of Being
How the warm rays of hope and healing enter the dark inner chamber of leaden loneliness through the unexpected cracks of kindness.

The Mushroom Hunters: Neil Gaiman’s Subversive Feminist Celebration of Science and the Human Hunger for Truth, in a Gorgeous Animated Short Film
A lyrical journey into the history of our species as the sensemaking animal who hungers for knowledge and advances by love.

Nellie Bly Makes the News: An Animated Documentary About the Investigative Journalism Pioneer Who Paved the Way for Women in Media
“As the most famous woman journalist of her day, as an early woman industrialist, as a humanitarian… Bly kept the same formula for success: Determine Right. Decide Fast. Apply Energy. Act with Conviction. Fight to the Finish. Accept the Consequences. Move on.”

An Axiom of Feeling: Werner Herzog on the Absolute, the Sublime, and Ecstatic Truth
“The soul of the listener or the spectator… actualizes truth through the experience of sublimity: that is, it completes an independent act of creation.”

The Tragic Heroism of Hopefulness: The Myth of Sisyphus in a Gorgeous 1974 Oscar-Nominated Hungarian Animation
An evocative homage to one of humanity’s most human heroes by the great Hungarian graphic artist and animator Marcell Jankovics.

My Mother’s Eyes: A Soulful Animated Short Film About Loss and the Unbreakable Bonds of Love
Simple, tenderly expressive line drawings unspool a complex, inexpressible universe of feeling.

How to Disappear: The Art of Listening to Silence in a Noisy World
“Silence is the presence of time undisturbed.”

Optimism: A Poetic Stop-Motion Celebration of Nature’s Resilience and the Persistence of Life Against All Odds
A spare and lovely ode to that which we so easily forget yet which animates the center of existence.

The Art of Receptivity: Hilton Als on Love
“The thing seemingly freely given often isn’t. It is rare to receive the gift of love, for instance, from someone who doesn’t want to be celebrated for their generosity in having offered it.”

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