ETHICS: What can a festival’s Inspiration Forum inspire us to do? We live in a world of representations, of pictures, war manipulating us as humans, and what about our relation to nature? Can an old philosopher show us a way?
ANARCHY: Leonardo Caffo’s argument for an anarchic society suggests that real freedom comes from rejecting old systems and embracing autonomy, not from restoring the state.
ETHICS: In the era of technology, the Western roots in Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions lose enchantment. Umberto Galimberti advocates for an ethics of aimless wandering, denouncing dominance and embracing a cosmopolitan, biocentric view that life on the earth is the measure of all things.
The 20th edition of the #Docudays UA# International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival has recently concluded, announcing its list of
ETHICS: The first season of Ji.hlava’s IDFF Conference of Ethics in Filmmaking was a necessary conversation around the need for common ethical principles in documentary filmmaking.
The Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI) has announced its special programme of acclaimed documentaries directed by women. Tackling issues of #mental
ESSAY: It is our self-understanding that is at stake today. With their aggressive, partly inflated subjects, Western technologists, economists, and artists have for centuries seen themselves above nature. In the ecosystem, man is in nature, he is a part of nature, on which he is completely dependent. Can we protect biotopes, habitats, rivers, lakes, soils, oceans and commons? This essay looks at five books examining the ecosystem.
Acting in the name of human rights has become a criminal act in France.
Japan’s recent earthquake and tsunami, leading to the nuclear accidents at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, have accelerated the immediacy of Michael Madsen’s newest documentary, Into Eternity. The scientists simply do not know how to answer.
