Online Film Festival – cultureunplugged.com
The other day I noticed that most film festivals (specially on human rights) don’t reach viewers outside the city where the film festival is held.
There is a need to share films about human and social issues online and the http://www.cultureunplugged.com/ site does just that.
You can access the films by clicking on the categories bellow:
Finally, I leave you the words of “First they came” (the context of this statement by Pastor Martin Niemoller was the inactivity of german intellectuals following Nazi rise to power) to get you going on investing your time on getting aware of what is going on in the world. Continue reading
where does the first song take you?
Enjoy! Music and composition by Rodrigo Leão….
As contradições do espaço e da matéria (em duas existências)
Nós estamos numa contradição: nascer de Graça e passar o resto da vida a ganhá-la.
Filósofo Agostinho Silva
Nascer pequeno e morrer grande, é chegar a ser homem. Por isso nos deu Deus tão pouca terra para o nascimento e tantas para a sepultura. Para nascer, pouca terra; para morrer, toda a terra; para nascer, Portugal; para morrer, o mundo.
Padre António Vieira
Sermão na Igreja de Santo António dos Portugueses, Roma, 1670
Brasil: Multi-comunicação
O Brasil é um modelo do futuro quanto à mistura de populações e ao gosto de se encontrar um dia, uma cultura que, sendo geral, respeite a cultura de cada um.
Filósofo Agostinho – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rrWqHJoBBc (obra do filósofo disponível em http://www.agostinhodasilva.pt)
Como ver o mundo? Como Demócrito ou como Heraclito?
Qual dos dois gentios andava mais prudente? Se Demócrito, que ria sempre, ou Heraclito, que sempre chorava?
Palavra e Utopia, Filme de Manoel de Oliveira
O que o Padre António Vieira pensava sobre a nossa resposta ao mundo. O vídeo está em italiano (IT) e com legendas em português (PT-PT)
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal. He defied the direct orders of his government and exhibited courage, moral rectitude, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice by issuing visas to all refugees regardless of nationality, race, religion or political opinions.This narrative film expresses his heroic actions towards humanity, which will perpetuate his legacy of justice for a new generation. In 1966, Yad Vashem named him Righteous Among the Nations. He is considered to have achieved the largest single rescue operation of World War II.
“The need to live in a world of difference” and “the end of the requirement to be equal”
Following my post about “What it means to travel”, the following conversation (in English) with Zygmunt Bauman analyses the need to live in a world of difference.
In this conversation Zygmunt defends that in the past there was a strict global order of cultures. The Europeans in the past thought they were on top of the cultures and the foreigners who moved to their countries (or where under their rule), had to adapt and assimilate their culture.The pyramid of cultures has fallen. This concept of superiority and its consequence of assimilation was a way to deal with difference that no longer applies to the present world (multicultural it has always been) where there are means of communication and transportation that put us all dependent and together.
According to Zygmunt, we have to evolve our reaction to “these eternal differences” and communicate with the different cultures.
Failing to properly communicate with a stranger is also a kind of darkness, it’s like a fog.
The end of the Portuguese invasion of India
Fifty years ago the Indian Union recovered the Portuguese State of India, whose capital was Goa.
Bellow two videos about the Portuguese influence in India, the first one about Goa, the fusion of Indian Religions and Catholicism and an overview of the Portuguese History in India, and the second one how the Portuguese influenced the cuisine in India:
Gambia’s Voting Mechanism
Voters enter a booth and pop a clear glass marble into one of three drums representing the candidates, instead of a putting a ballot paper into a box.
It’s a unique system introduced in 1965 because of Gambia’s high illiteracy
Gambia’s chief electoral officer Kawsu Ceesay
