Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Silence

Silence is a film by Irish director Pat Collins made about his journey from Berlin to his hometown of Donegal. It's focus is the sound of a place, and folklore and community plays an important part in that.

A huge problem with environmental awareness efforts is that they often patronise humans in a polar response to the way we patronise nature and act as though we own it. Yes, we need to learn that we don't own the planet, but to be told we are parasites on this earth only incites apathy. 
Nature and humankind can live symbiotically and both reap huge rewards, both physical and spiritual  health. So to educate and emphasise the pleasure of individual and collective attachment to place, and the customs that come about from this, can incite a huge protective instinct in us for our earth.


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