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Full Speech: Legendary Activist Angela Davis at Women's March on Washington

Kevin Costner gave one of the best performances of the year ..Hidden Figures (2017)

Kevin Costner should have been in the mix for best supporting actor, It is an insightful performance .. Too bad every awards show overlooked him

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WATER RUNS OUT? SUNDANCE Doc AND PBS address the issue

Here at SUNDANCE the question of water and the greed around the privatizing of a natural resource is the subject of POWER AND WATER: The California Heist (http://www.sundance.org/projects/water-power-a--heist). While the very well done and the informative doc is about California. it is a worldwide phenomenon. Enron at its collapse was in a spending campaign to buy up water rights in South America. Now this informative and scary report on water from PBS. It is not just Flint!

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John Berger or The Art of Looking (2016)

This is the last know interview that John Berger gave before his death in the alps on January 2, 2017.   His gift to all of us was to open our imaginations and most importantly our eyes

Published on Nov 7, 2016

Art, politics and motorcycles - on the occasion of his 90th birthday John Berger or the Art of Looking is an intimate portrait of the writer and art critic whose ground-breaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding of the concept for over five decades. The film explores how paintings become narratives and stories turn into images, and rarely does anybody demonstrate this as poignantly as Berger.

Berger lived and worked for decades in a small mountain village in the French Alps, where the nearness to nature, the world of the peasants and his motorcycle, which for him deals so much with presence, inspired his drawing and writing.

The film introduces Berger's art of looking with theatre wizard Simon McBurney, film-director Michael Dibb, visual artist John Christie, cartoonist Selçuk Demiral, photographer Jean Mohr as well as two of his children, film-critic Katya Berger and the painter Yves Berger.

The prelude and starting point is Berger's mind-boggling experience of restored vision following a successful cataract removal surgery. There, in the cusp of his clouding eyesight, Berger re-discovers the irredeemable wonder of seeing.

Realised as a portrait in works and collaborations, this creative documentary takes a different approach to biography, with John Berger leading in his favourite role of the storyteller.

Director: Cherie Dvorák

WHOSE STREETS?

I wish I could have had everyone I have every ran in the streets with trying to make a better world from the days Gay Liberation Front and the Anti-War movement in the 1960s to this year with Gays Against  Guns and Rise and  Resist, sitting with me on opening night of the Sundance Film Festival and the world premiere of WHOSE STREET. An honest look at what actually happened in Ferguson Mo after Michael Brown was murdered by the Ferguson police. How the community that actually lived there.reacted. WHOSE STREET is truth telling from the actual people who participated rather than a 90sec news spot. For me, it was the perfect film to see on the night before DTs inauguration.  We can if we work together still make a better world despite whatever obstacles are put in front of us. History teaches that it is and has been possible.  So to all of you in DC keep each other safe and know I am there in spirit. Here in Park City, UT  home of the Sundance Film Festival, I will be participating in the locally organized WOMEN'S MARCH 

Here you can learn about WHOSE STREET .....

WHOSE STREETS?

John Berger and Susan Sontag / To Tell A Story (1983)

 A little something to get your mind off of the DTs for a few moments and allow yourself to look in and ask in what way can I be creative in resistance and not loose my humanity..... or sense of craft and yes humor. Ah John Berger and my missed friend Susan Sontag