I just finished watching Fall and Winter, and I think it's one of the best documentaries I have ever seen this year, both in message and cinematography.
It is a step-by-step description of the problems of civilization as they have originated in agriculture. It brought hierarchy, militarism, and the domination of other cultures to extract resources. It led to the thirst for increasing energy at the cost of massive environmental destruction and colonization.
It talks about how technology reflects the character and nature of a culture, and how consent for our alienation from the earth is manufactured mass media, which is controlled by oligarchs to their help fulfill their pathological pursuit of power (documentary's words, not mine). A plug is even made for psychopathy, and how mass culture conditions us into accepting a psychopathic view of individualism at the expense of community and nature. It warned how how the increasing centralization of dependencies and loss of traditional knowledge of agriculture and crafts has set up our world for a catastrophic global collapse once the energy, soil, and clean water runs out. Many interviews are given to the people of Louisiana, California, Sudan, New Mexico, and even Detroit. Many testify to how their traditional ways of life were destroyed by economic upheavals or environmental catastrophes (such as the BP oil spill in 2011).
Throughout the film, reference is made to a speech given by a Chief the the Wolf, Fox, and Coyote Clan of the Hopi Sovereign Nation to the United Nations in New York City in 1992. This Ambassador warned about the consequences of the dangerous path the world was on, and said that a great purification was on its way if the world does not change its path. That was 22 years ago.
[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]The movie ends on a more uplifting tone, talking about many pioneers in soil-building agriculture as well as earth shelters and ecologically sensitive home designs to optimize water and heat use for a world lacking electricity. [/font]There were many fascinating interview subjects (one of which was Chris Hedges), and I'll definitely be spending time researching a few of their works. I don't think some of the ideas proposed are the whole banana, but it's a damn good place to start IMO. I can see this film waking up quite a few people in my social and familial circles.
[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]It's available for rent ($5) or download ($10) on Vimeo.[/font]
[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]_https://vimeo.com/ondemand/fallwintermovie/59369681[/font]
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It is a step-by-step description of the problems of civilization as they have originated in agriculture. It brought hierarchy, militarism, and the domination of other cultures to extract resources. It led to the thirst for increasing energy at the cost of massive environmental destruction and colonization.
It talks about how technology reflects the character and nature of a culture, and how consent for our alienation from the earth is manufactured mass media, which is controlled by oligarchs to their help fulfill their pathological pursuit of power (documentary's words, not mine). A plug is even made for psychopathy, and how mass culture conditions us into accepting a psychopathic view of individualism at the expense of community and nature. It warned how how the increasing centralization of dependencies and loss of traditional knowledge of agriculture and crafts has set up our world for a catastrophic global collapse once the energy, soil, and clean water runs out. Many interviews are given to the people of Louisiana, California, Sudan, New Mexico, and even Detroit. Many testify to how their traditional ways of life were destroyed by economic upheavals or environmental catastrophes (such as the BP oil spill in 2011).
Throughout the film, reference is made to a speech given by a Chief the the Wolf, Fox, and Coyote Clan of the Hopi Sovereign Nation to the United Nations in New York City in 1992. This Ambassador warned about the consequences of the dangerous path the world was on, and said that a great purification was on its way if the world does not change its path. That was 22 years ago.
[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]The movie ends on a more uplifting tone, talking about many pioneers in soil-building agriculture as well as earth shelters and ecologically sensitive home designs to optimize water and heat use for a world lacking electricity. [/font]There were many fascinating interview subjects (one of which was Chris Hedges), and I'll definitely be spending time researching a few of their works. I don't think some of the ideas proposed are the whole banana, but it's a damn good place to start IMO. I can see this film waking up quite a few people in my social and familial circles.
[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]It's available for rent ($5) or download ($10) on Vimeo.[/font]
[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]_https://vimeo.com/ondemand/fallwintermovie/59369681[/font]
[embed]<iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/9pjxYMSFMtg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/embed]
