15 days in the Cuba Nation.
Realization: Guillaume Le Berre – 5mars.com
Sountrack: Pix – To Begin Again
Philip Glass – The Photographer A Gentleman’s Honor
Filmed with Panasonic Gh2 (Nokton Voigtlander 25mm, Olympus 9-18mm and Leitz Elmarit-R 90mm f2,8)
Guillaume Le Berre is a French CG artist who since 2008, has lived in the French Carribean island of Martinique where he works independently.
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Trilok Gurtu – Have we lost our dreams? (With Salif Keita & Sabine Kabongo)
About Trilok
Trilok Gurtu is a master of Indian music, tabla, percussion, and Western drumming — who plays a unique hybrid East-West drum set up.
He is also a visionary composer whose musical adventurousness has led him to creative fusions of Indian music with jazz, rock, classical, and ethnic music from all over the world. Well known in the jazz community through his collaborations with Don Cherry, John McLaughlin, Joe Zawinul, and Pat Metheny, Gurtu first became known to US audiences as a member of the world/jazz fusion band Oregon.
Trilok has recorded many albums and received numerous prestigious nominations and awards…
From Afghanistan…, further evidence of the healing power of art. Meanwhile, here in the United States, these kinds of stories ought to serve as cautionary tales to underscore the deleterious effects of cutting funding for the arts. As poetry goes, so do other forms of creativity and expression.
Afghan women reclaim voice through poetry
On Saturday afternoons in Kabul, women read and discuss their poetry. It is a scene repeated across Afghanistan. The women, many of whom have been denied access to education, recite their work, and others write it down.
Not every aspiring poet can attend. Some phone in their work secretly because their families might not approve.
Afghan women say they are worried that the next government might include the Taliban because they could lose some of their new freedoms.
Jennifer Glasse met one group of women who are empowering themselves through poetry.
LOVE
I am caught in Love’s web so deceitful
None of my endeavors turn fruitful.
I knew not when I rode the high-blooded stead
The harder I pulled its reins the less it would heed.
Love is an ocean with such a vast space
No wise man can swim it in any place.
A true lover should be faithful till the end
And face life’s reprobated trend.
When you see things hideous, fancy them neat,
Eat poison, but taste sugar sweet.
Afghans In History Episode Eight – Rabia Balkhi
Rabia balkhi is one Afghan histories most respected women, she was a lady that brought to light the capabilities of Afghan women to match and also work at the same level of the legendary male Afghan poets such as Jallaludin Rumi.
Rabia balkhi does not have the most thouroughly documented biography, however her legacy and passion for literature lives on with her poetry which still captivates audiences today
Learn more about the tragic story of Rabia Balkhi at the Afghan Women’s Writing Project
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