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Lev Kalman recommended Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painleve (2009) in Movies (curated)

 
Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painleve (2009)
Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painleve (2009)
2009 | Classics
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"Science, art, and philosophy are never separate. If they seem so, it’s because one has implicitly absorbed the ideology of another. I think we’re in a moment now that’s making our nature documentaries worse. With HD, HDR, and CGI, they seamlessly illustrate already decided-upon science, making the un-human world seem as knowable and digestible as a Pixar fable. This is why, as impressive as they can be, they’re disposable. We abandon the HD doc when the 4K one comes along. In Jean Painlevé and Geneviève Hamon’s aquariums, microphotography, and time lapses, you see how the scientists know, instead of a hyperreal demonstration of what they know. Rather than getting a God’s-eye view, you experience this other world as a limited human trying to figure it out. The visuals are murky and weird—they need interpretation, as much from background science as from poetic metaphor. There is a sense of discovery, humility, and mystery in these films, and for this reason, they convey something spiritual."

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BookInspector (124 KP) rated Innocent: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel in Books

Sep 24, 2020  
Innocent: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel
Innocent: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel
Taylor Stevens | 2011 | Thriller
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This is a second book in Vanessa Munroe series. This new job was very needed, after character’s African adventures. (The Informationist) It makes me feel that author puts a lot of effort in making her research about the environment she is going to write. I loved all the details about the cult she mentioned and I am really glad she wrote this book because it educates people about what might possibly be going on inside such cults and how it makes people feel after they leave them. I do understand it is fictional work, but it was very close to all the documentaries I have seen regarding cults. This book is not very fast paced but there is a lot of insight to how Munroe’s brain works and her ability to integrate in to the situations. The ending could’ve been little more tense, but I was not disappointed with it. It is captivating book, it sucks you in and doesn’t let you down.
  
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Jun 28, 2019  
WHAT TO STREAM THIS WEEK is back again. This week we have 3 movies and 2 documentaries that we want to talk about. I will warn you we did not agree on these choices a lot, but we find a way to work it out and still have a great show. As always we encourage you watch the whole show but have also included the time hacks so that you can check out the reviews of the stuff you already had your eye on. Make sure you subscribe and hit that like button so that you know about everything that we are doing. Hope you are having a great week and we hope to help make it better with WHAT TO STREAM THIS WEEK.

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