“One molecule could say yes to another molecule and life was born” –– talking with Deborah Stratman about Last Things (2023)
Deborah Stratman on Robin Wall Kimmerer: “She talked about grammar and how we would know the natural world so differently if we used a language unlike English, that’s so noun-heavy. We’re just thinking about these things as these inert bodies, but in other languages, they’re way more verb-prevalent. And so instead of ‘the tree’, ‘the lake’, it’s ‘to be a tree,’ ‘to be a lake.’ I want people to think the same way about minerals. Rocks are verbs, and we just don’t have the right sensory doors to see them that way. If language was framed in a different way, we probably… I don’t know if it would solve any problems, but it seems like it would be more egalitarian.”
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Deborah Stratman on Robin Wall Kimmerer: “She talked about grammar and how we would know the natural world so differently if we used a language unlike English, that’s so noun-heavy. We’re just thinking about these things as these inert bodies, but in other languages, they’re way more verb-prevalent. And so instead of ‘the tree’, ‘the lake’, it’s ‘to be a tree,’ ‘to be a lake.’ I want people to think the same way about minerals. Rocks are verbs, and we just don’t have the right sensory doors to see them that way. If language was framed in a different way, we probably… I don’t know if it would solve any problems, but it seems like it would be more egalitarian.”
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- 2/14/2024
- by Frank Falisi
- The Film Stage
Last Things.In October, the Sundance Film Festival announced that it was canceling its New Frontier program for experimental and artists’ cinema at its 2023 edition. Citing the need to “reflect upon the rich learnings of the last two years,” which were presented online due to Covid-19, and “evaluate the shifting media landscape,” the festival seemed to be cutting ties with its sole section dedicated to noncommercial, nonindustrial forms of filmmaking. While disheartening at a glance, the decision may prove beneficial for the program, which as it turns out isn’t being scrapped, but instead reimagined—a potentially promising development for a section that over time had essentially become a platform for VR projects and emerging technologies rather than a haven for more artisanal filmmaking practices as it was originally conceived. While we await the results, this year’s drastically reduced New Frontier program promised a “return to roots,” a claim...
- 2/13/2023
- MUBI
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