av Daniel Hansson | Aug 4, 2014 | Film, Human rights, Reconnection Activism
I was going to write, but words failed me. Instead, my rage and despair over the ongoing crimes against humanity in Gaza motivated me to speak in the language of film. Pain Threshold is my new short film in the Terra Religata project – furiously made last week over a few days. It documents genocidal atrocities in the present (and past), U.S.-backed and funded war by Israel against the children of Gaza. How much is too much? Where is the world’s threshold of pain? If we fail to empathize with the people of Gaza, we are no longer human. Therefore, raise your voice to stop the genocide. Protest is the only thing that can end the siege of Gaza. For that reason, please share and promote this film and help it reach the people that need to wake up. WARNING: Extremely graphic. Viewer discretion advised. Read more about my film ”Come, this is the way”. Join the dialogue! Comment below, get in touch to receive email news, and follow Daniel Hansson and Terra Religata on Twitter for immediate updates on #ReconnectionActivism and new blog...
av Daniel Hansson | Apr 23, 2014 | Reconnection Activism
Over and over again, the brush hits the paper. Trying to catch a fleeting form. Again and again, my hand is tracing a wave in motion that I first can barely perceive, but nevertheless feel an irresistible urge to follow. At first, only with my hand, and then, suddenly also with my eyes when I see my sumi-brush capture the motion in black ink on the mulberry paper. So many attempts, and then, suddenly, congruency. The inner urge given shape. I see two brush strokes in dance; unified in the heart of a mutual whole. What does it mean to form a wave? Many conditions must be right; many smaller movements come together to finally express their gathered force through a sustained wave of directed change. The outer result finally manifested. The tiny wave that took shape on my paper has become the symbol of Terra Religata, an international activistic and creative collaborative project that was born during the filming of my experimental documentary with the same name. This film, still under production, has so far given rise to as a handful of other creative experiments in filmmaking, poetry, music and transformative pedagogy. The common denominator is a conscious focus on making a personal experience of deep reconnection possible – among people as well as between individuals and the nature that gives them life; the wellspring that our modern culture is poisoning. Terra Religata shares values with many activists that are already struggling for justice, peace, ecological balance and climate neutrality, freedom of expression, and the individual’s right to privacy in a time of totalitarian mass surveillance. The...
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