~ Cleansing of Temple ~

Money often costs too much.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

~ Prophet’s Dilemma ~

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
~ Albert Camus ~

~ 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 ~

The Soul of the Bone / A Alma do Osso (2004)

Director: Cao Guimarães
Producer: Beto Magalhães
Genre: Documentary / Experimental
Country: Brazil
Language: Portuguese / PT / ES / EN subtitles

Loneliness and the relationship between man and nature.

A alma do osso is an experimental documentary about  Domingos Albino Ferreira (also known as Dominguinhos da Pedra), a 71-year-old man who has lived alone for 41 years in caves in the countryside region of Itambé do Mato Dentro, Minas Gerais (Brazil). He survives on a meagre pension from the Brazilian government.

It starts with an epigraph by Guimarães Rosa: ‘Loneliness is too much for ourselves’. There are no dialogues or interviews in this documentary, and almost no speech. Practically all the information we receive comes from the images and sounds that characterize the countryside: beautiful landscapes of green hills and the sea, the man’s cave and the sounds of nature.

At the Ends of the Earth / Au bout du Monde / На краю Земли (1998)

Director: Konstantin Bronzit
Producer: Konstantin Bronzit
Genre: Animation / Short
Country: France / Russia
Language: Russian / None

A strange story at the very top of the Caucasian mountains – the apex, pinnacle, vertex.

A family lives in a house that teeters precariously on the very tip of a mountain. The balance of the house is affected not only by the family that lives inside, but also their cow, dog, cat, a passing bird, and a man with a couple of sheep who returns in a car. The slopes of the hill themselves also seem rather slippery at times.

The film was included in the Animation Show of Shows and eventually gathering nearly 70 awards around the film festivals.

~ Oneness & Identity ~

The meeting of Man and God is a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of Man in the Divinity.
~ Sri Aurobindo ~

 

~ Illusory Psychalgia ~

You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.
~ Eckhart Tolle ~

Contact / Контакт (1978)

Director: Vladimir Tarasov
Producer: Alexander Kostinsky
Genre: Animation / Short / Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Language: Russian / None

The alien and the human being always can understand each other if there will be a good will.

The film has no dialogue in any language. All communication is made using music, gestures and gazes; the alien also tries to communicate by shapeshifting. Director Vladimir Tarasov explored this theme of universal communication in his other films; he considered animation “the Esperanto of all mankind”.

~ Vibrational Form ~

That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged
– to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
~ Hermann Hesse ~

~ Being in Balance ~

Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
Movement never lies.
~ Martha Graham ~