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Bringing dead land back to life: a filmmaker’s perspective

Bringing dead land back to life: a filmmaker’s perspective

by radiocafe | Nov 15, 2022 | Activism, Arts & films, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Science & health

In 1995 John Liu began documenting the Loess Plateau in China, a landscape ruined by poor agriculture practices. Over decades he documented its return to vibrant life, and filmed many other restoration projects worldwide.

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This earth to which we belong

This earth to which we belong

by radiocafe | Jan 25, 2022 | Arts & films, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture

The name of Pamela Tanner Boll‘s new film, To Which We Belong, comes from the great naturalist and conservationist Aldo Leopold, who understood the interconnection among all living beings, and the need to treat land with respect––and a deep sense of belonging.

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Renewing Native American food traditions

Renewing Native American food traditions

by radiocafe | Dec 1, 2020 | Arts & films, Down to Earth, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous

Sanjay Rawal ‘s new film, Gather, explores how Native Americans across the U.S. are rediscovering their food traditions–and building on them in the context of present-day realities.

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Love Sickness: Shakespeare, medicine and metaphors in a world of plague

Love Sickness: Shakespeare, medicine and metaphors in a world of plague

by radiocafe | May 8, 2020 | Arts & films, ASU

Romantic love was long considered an illness — with some bizarre and harrowing treatments

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Conditions of contagion: The fears we face

Conditions of contagion: The fears we face

by radiocafe | Apr 17, 2020 | Arts & films, ASU, Books, Science & health

In 18th-century England, viruses and bacteria were not understood — but the idea of contagion was part of the social fabric. We talk to Annika Mann, an ASU scholar of 18th-century and Romantic-era British literature and culture.

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Perdido: Photographing the border with Michael Berman

Perdido: Photographing the border with Michael Berman

by radiocafe | Nov 18, 2019 | Arts & films, Books, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican

Photographer Michael Berman‘s black and white photographs tell the story of life and land on the border, and his essays reveal what happens behind the camera.

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Photographing myths and realities of the American West

Photographing myths and realities of the American West

by radiocafe | Nov 4, 2019 | Arts & films, Books, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican

Joan Myers‘ new book of photographs, Where the Buffalo Roamed: Images of the New West, explores the decaying icons, strange cultural juxtapositions, and the myths that underly our sense of place in the American West.

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Motherhood, Barbells & T-Shots

Motherhood, Barbells & T-Shots

by radiocafe | Oct 31, 2019 | Activism, Arts & films, New Mexico, Race/class/gender, Santa Fe New Mexican

That’s the name of Mona Malec’s one-woman show, a story about having a transgender child in a world where acceptance and understanding are hard won. We talk to Mona and director Rod Harrison.

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Documenting an Indigenous Day of the Dead

Documenting an Indigenous Day of the Dead

by radiocafe | Oct 21, 2019 | Arts & films, Native & indigenous, Santa Fe New Mexican, Spirituality & religion

The P’urhépecha people were once part of a major empire, contemporaneous with the Aztecs. Their rituals and beliefs have survived to the present day, and have been documented by two Santa Fe filmmakers.

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Santa Fe Independent Film Festival 2019

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival 2019

by radiocafe | Oct 17, 2019 | Arts & films, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican

We talk to producers, directors, and actors in this year’s festival, with themes that include Native American adoption, a Louisiana faith healer, the Standing Rock protests, and a housewife and mother going over the edge.

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