~ Cleansing of Temple ~

Money often costs too much.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Director: Steven Gorelick, Helena Norberg-Hodge, John Page
Producer: Helena Norberg-Hodge
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia
Language: English /
AR / CN / DE / EN / ES / FR / HI / IT / JP / PT / RO / RU subtitles

Voices from Six Continents.

The Economics of Happiness features a calling for systemic economic change. The documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. While government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power, people around the world are resisting those policies and working to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm: an economics of localization.

~ Integrity of Beauty ~

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life,
the whole aim and end of human existence.
~ Aristotle ~

~ Dignity of Man ~

Four things support the world:
the learning of the wise, the justice of the great,
the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave.
~ Muhammad ~

Ambra: Fascination of Sound and Nature (2002-2007)

Director: Giorgio and Martin Koppehele
Producer: Avenue Music
Genre: Meditation / Music / New Age
Country: Germany
Language: English / None

Fascination of sound and nature.

A unique combination of music, visuals and brilliant imagination of language and poetry. Excellent for relaxing moments, the visuals  are created under the meditative music of semi-classical compositions and magical ethnic vocals on the basis of Fascinating Nature trilogy by Gogol Lobmayr. All coming together to make a dreamlike atmosphere – one great big piece of art.

The Global Brain (1983)

Director: Peter Russell
Producer: Peter Russell, Chris Hall
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

The idea of the Earth as an integrated self-regulated living organism.

Based on the themes in the book The Global Brain, this moving audio-visual presentation explores the “Gaia hypothesis.” It points to the fragile regulating system that exists between all living and non-living things with the aim of showing people that recognizing the interconnectedness of all things, helps us to become more conscious of our daily actions and ultimately discover a more peaceful way to live with ourselves, each other and the planet. Well ahead of the internet and information and communications technologies’ boom, Peter Russell observed “if Earth is a collective, self-regulating living organism, what then is the potential of humanity as seen through the eyes of the planet?”

Our Daily Bread / Unser täglich Brot (2005)

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Producer: Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Wolfgang Widerhofer
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany / Austria
Language: German / Polish / None

A realistic view on the internal workings of multiple food production companies in our modern society.

Our Daily Bread is a wide-screen tableau of a feast which isn’t always easy to digest – and in which we all take part. A pure, meticulous and high-end film experience that enables the audience to form their own ideas. The film depicts how modern food production companies employ technology to maximize efficiency, consumer safety and profit. It consists mainly of actual working situations without voice-over narration or interviews as the director tries to let viewers form their own opinion on the subject. The names of the companies where the footage was filmed are purposely not shown.

~ Critical Point ~

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries – not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.
~ Albert Einstein ~

Occupy Love (2012)

Director: Velcrow Ripper
Producer: Velcrow Ripper
Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada
Language: English

You cant evict an idea whose time has come.

Occupy Love will be a moving, transformative feature documentary that asks the question: how are the economic and ecological crises we are facing today a great love story?

Occupy Love explores the growing realization that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning. The old paradigm that concentrates wealth, founded on the greed of the few, is causing economic and ecological collapse. The resulting crisis has become the catalyst for a profound awakening: millions of people are deciding that enough is enough – the time has come to create a new world, a world that works for all life.

~ Inverse Relation ~

Generosity is giving more than you can,
and pride is taking less than you need.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~