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For all our Wilderness mates in NYC, please come to the rooftop of our studio at the CAN FACTORY this Thursday night, where you’ll be able to see the new film, BOVINES from France, preceded by two shorts about cows — one from Ethiopia another from the USA.
BOVINES (Emmanuel Gras | France | 62 min.)
So as to not ruin the surprise of this film, and the journey from initial shock to realization to acceptance and wonder, it does best to give away as little as possible. Just to say, in this instance, the title truly does say it all.
What can be said is that this movie is it is absolutely beautiful, deftly crafted, highly original, and perhaps like no other movie experience. It is a meditative movie, full of long, slow, gorgeous shots. And, once you get over the initial giggle of the premise, you find yourself sucked into another world, indeed, another state of consciousness. When human farmers do eventually enter the picture for a few moments, you see them as strange and menacing a creature as a cow would. You realize you have become cow.
PRECEDED BY:
BACK TO LAND (Tijana Petrovic | USA | 4 min.)
HISAB (Ezra Wube | Ethiopia | 8 min.)
Venue: THE OLD AMERICAN CAN FACTORY
232 Third St. at 3rd Ave
8:00PM Doors Open
8:30PM Live Music by Mutual Benefit
9:00PM Films Begin
11:30PM: Reception in courtyard sponsored by Radeberger and Buffalo Trace
My bike ride to work = Lady Liberty, David’s circus barge, endless blue sky + the salty Atlantic. Sure wish I was sailing today…but I’ve got a pretty sweet job all considered.
Physics is the essence
Whoa. I’m listening to a lecture on quantum tunneling. Penetrating walls. Time travel. I love physics.
“stand beside her, and guide her”
Remembering today also, that war isn’t the answer.
My maternal grandmother came to North America from England (first Toronto then Manhattan) after her father died in Churchill’s great blunder - the Dardanelles. So many fates determined by war and by the seeking of peace. We’re grateful to have our lives here in America enriched by such diversity and by our great, hopeful experiment of democracy which is about no less than having the courage to bear witness and to pursue happiness. Though sometimes discouraged and tired, we “stand beside her, and guide her….” always.
Big love + big courage to you all from the Wilderness of Wish
we’re looking for a new wilderness of wish typeface for our new website, any recommendations? i’m enjoying these beautiful watercolor numbers created by the Spanish font-makers at Resistenza @beppeartz + @pacoxxzz
Best trust the happy moments - what they gave
Makes man less fearful of the certain grave,
And gives his work compassion and new eyes -
The days that make us happy make us wise.
—John Masefield
