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Happy Beltane from Sweden

Happy Beltane from Sweden

Initiation of a Yanomami ShamanA Channel 4 production that features a lot of incredible footage from the Yanomami people. Released in 1981...

Initiation of a Yanomami Shaman

A Channel 4 production that features a lot of incredible footage from the Yanomami people. Released in 1981 this astounding film documents the intensity of a shamanic initiation among the Yanomami. A 7 day ordeal that involves a form of ritual that is almost extinct in the so-called 'modern world'.

https://soulvlog.blogspot.com/2024/09/initiation-of-yanomami-shaman.html

Effigy from Gabon installed.

Effigy from Gabon installed.

Amazing modern sacred music from Sapmi. The Sami people of Northern Scandinavia.

Amazing modern sacred music from Sapmi. The Sami people of Northern Scandinavia.

Second hand shops are the source for my nightmares.

Second hand shops are the source for my nightmares.

‘No Leaders, Please’ Is An Exploration Of The Fluid And Shapeshifting Nature Of...

‘No Leaders, Please’ Is An Exploration Of The Fluid And Shapeshifting Nature Of Identity

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-brew-pick/no-leaders-please-is-an-exploration-of-the-fluid-and-shapeshifting-nature-of-identity-246985.html

On 27 December 1938, three weeks before his 48th birthday, Osip Mandelstam died in a transit camp of typhoid fever. His death was described...

On 27 December 1938, three weeks before his 48th birthday, Osip Mandelstam died in a transit camp of typhoid fever. His death was described later in a short story "Cherry Brandy" by Varlam Shalamov, who notes that his fellow inmates concealed his death for two days so they could continue to collect his rations. His body lay unburied until spring, along with the other deceased. Then the entire "winter stack" was buried in a mass grave.

Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser (1974) / Werner Herzog

Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser (1974) / Werner Herzog

Power is the enemy. The State represents absolute power. But that doesn't mean that removing the state will remove power as a method of...

Power is the enemy. The State represents absolute power. But that doesn't mean that removing the state will remove power as a method of social conditioning. Nor will the state "wither away" with the victory of a revolutionary proletariat. Change must come in an organised system of collective enlightenment. I am at the planning stage of a novel length explanation of what that enlightenment would entail.

Bakunin meets Marx. The Young Karl Marx. 2017. 118mins. Director, Raoul Peck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DdML7QDHTo

Marxism, freedom and the state - Mikhail Bakunin: https://libcom.org/article/marxism-freedom-and-state-mikhail-bakunin

Noam Chomsky - Bakunin’s Predictions. 6:14mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gS6g41m_NU&t=59s

Words are anchors in Time.

Words are anchors in Time.

Touaregs du Niger (Les maîtres du désert) (طوارق النيجر (اسياد...

Touaregs du Niger (Les maîtres du désert) (طوارق النيجر (اسياد الصحراء

https://youtube.com/watch?v=b8JlDV8ICpE&feature=shared

Short Cuts (1993)Short Cuts is a 1993 American comedy-drama film, directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Altman and Frank...

Short Cuts (1993)

Short Cuts is a 1993 American comedy-drama film, directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver. The film is set in Los Angeles, in contrast to the original Pacific Northwest backdrop of Carver's stories. Short Cuts traces the actions of 22 principal characters, both in parallel and at occasional loose points of connection.

https://soulvlog.blogspot.com/2025/04/short-cuts-1993.html

As a young man I sought out the complexity of the city. Now as an older man i seek the complexity of my inner self. #thoughts

As a young man I sought out the complexity of the city. Now as an older man i seek the complexity of my inner self.

#thoughts

The Original John Coltrane Quintet- Spiritual.Beyond good. This music is sacred. https://youtube.com/watch?v=rkY_zTKzPCY&feature=shared

The Original John Coltrane Quintet- Spiritual.

Beyond good. This music is sacred.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rkY_zTKzPCY&feature=shared

Coltrane practiced obsessively, '25 hours a day'. While on tour, a fellow hotel guest complained about the noise. Coltrane simply...

Coltrane practiced obsessively, '25 hours a day'. While on tour, a fellow hotel guest complained about the noise. Coltrane simply removed the saxophone from his mouth and carried on playing in silence. He would practice a single note for hours on end and fall asleep with the horn at his side.

The Divine Davidhttps://soulvlog.blogspot.com/2012/03/divine-david-presents.html

The Divine David

https://soulvlog.blogspot.com/2012/03/divine-david-presents.html

I Am Eric Trump. My Family Won’t Let Me Talk Because I Am an Anarcho-Feminist Committed to Kurdish Liberation...

I Am Eric Trump. My Family Won’t Let Me Talk Because I Am an Anarcho-Feminist Committed to Kurdish Liberation https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am-eric-trump-my-family-wont-let-me-talk-because-i-am-an-anarcho-feminist-committed-to-kurdish-liberation

Jean Vigo (born April 26, 1905, Paris, France—died Oct. 5, 1934, Paris) was a French film director whose blending of lyricism with realism...

Jean Vigo (born April 26, 1905, Paris, France—died Oct. 5, 1934, Paris) was a French film director whose blending of lyricism with realism and Surrealism, the whole underlined with a cynical, anarchic approach to life, distinguished him as an original talent. Although he completed only three feature films and one short, Taris (1931), before his early death, his films produced great public reaction. A Jean Vigo Prize is awarded each year in France in memory of the filmmaker whose work is characterized by “independence of spirit and quality of directing.”

While finishing work on Zéro de Conduite, producer Jacques-Louis Nounez was interested in working with Vigo on a feature. Vigo suggested they work on a prison film about French anarchist Eugène Dieudonné, whom Vigo's father Miguel Almereyda (also an anarchist) had defended in a newspaper article in 1913. Vigo began working on the film with Dieudonné, who had agreed to play himself, and Julot Dupont, an expert on French prisons. After Zero for Conduct was banned in France (until 1945) for its controversial depiction of the French education system, Nounez was worried that such a film could not be distributed and they agreed to return to the project later.

In July 1933, Nounez finally gave Vigo a scenario about "barge dwellers" called L'Atalante, written by Jean Guinée. In the early 1930s, films and music about "barge dwellers" were popular in France and though Vigo initially disliked the scenario, he finally agreed to make the film. It has since been hailed by many critics as one of the greatest films of all time.

On location, shooting conditions were often cold and wet, causing Vigo to become ill and develop a fever. He was already suffering from tuberculosis and was bedridden for portions of the filming. Vigo died at the age of 29 in the arms of his wife Lydou. He died just as a street performer began playing Le chaland qui passe (A Passing Barge) below his window.

Zéro de conduite (Zero for Conduct) written and directed by Vigo. 1933. 41mins. In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behaviour, four boys decide to rebel against celebration day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUkW1LBuQcg&ab_channel=PublicDomainMovies

Dreams, Mundanity and the Anarchist Yearnings of L'Atalante. 'L’Atalante itself isn’t simply a barge but something of a traveling microcosm of human relation, an anarchist squat or group house collective on the water. This notion fits with Vigo’s politics'. : https://ludditerobot.com/great-movie-project/dreams-mundanity-anarchist-yearnings-latalante/

L'Atalante. 1934. 65mins. Director, Jean Vigo. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzTN0YnKmOs

The Anarchism of Jean Vigo. Libcom: https://libcom.org/library/anarchism-jean-vigo?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ61tRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBVYkZQRWNIZ2NHNXd0Yk5kAR71PV_16D5akT0uCnpghXKnCLvRtpjD_9A2Lae58Cd_rXqANOA1PwPtHofFpA_aem_kUbxZ_kENolbrIwlCkyBCQ

Le Chaland qui Passe (A Passing Barge) - Lys Gauty. The story of Le Chaland is bound up with that of the film L'Atalante by Jean Vigo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpDHDINZNy4

DON'T GET USED TO ITAUTHORITARIAN RIGHT-WING POLITICS. CLOSED EYES. SD'S MESSENGER.A message from Sweden.

DON'T GET USED TO IT

AUTHORITARIAN RIGHT-WING POLITICS. CLOSED EYES. SD'S MESSENGER.

A message from Sweden.

Brisbane comrades!

Brisbane comrades!