cancer

Video:The Wit and Wisdom of Cancer

Apr 27, 2011

 

A variety of cancer cells discuss their situations within the human body and the meaning of their existence. This is animator Nina Paley's allegorical look at the ecological "Gaia" hypothesis, namely that there are no outsiders: that all of what exists is integrated into an enormous inextricably intertwined whole.

Video:Land of Destiny

May 24, 2011

 

What US city has been most affected by industry abandonment?


In the rich fabric of the city’s landscape - rows of boarded storefronts, the bright sprawl of petrochemical plants and the swollen rooms of hospital wards and crowded bars - one finds a microcosm of the 21st century. Land Of Destiny is a tender portrait of a working-class city in paralysis and a devastating investigation into when and for what people fight. 



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