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Awra Amba by Paulina Tervo
posted on 2011-10-05 05:03:06 0 replies"Awra Amba," a town in Northern Ethiopia, has its foundations via the simple questions of (now elder) Zumra, when still a boy. He watched his Father & Mother return from their dawn to dusk jobs in the fields each day, only to ask why his Father's workday was finished, his Mother's had just begun.
Why was it HER job to now care for their children? Why was it HERS to prepare the meal for their family... to wash her husband's (Zumra's Father's) feet, while hers must be equally, if not more tired?
Earning the reputation as a "crazy", at an early age, Zumra left to start the village of "Awra Amba". At "Awra Amba," a woman trying to earn her right to join the community explains (one must "clear oneself of evil ways" before one is accepted & the woman "likes to drink," she matter-of-factly explains) a "woman does a man's work and a man, the work of a woman," for all are given a job one is best suited for.
One particular outstanding discussion takes place when some Muslims confront Zumra as to why there are no churches/mosques/temples in Awra Amba. "Because we do not confine our God to a building -- our God is EVERYWHERE," Zumra patiently explains.
These Muslims are not the only vistors to the village however. Students & farmers; politicians, scientists, sociologists-- all, at one point or another, come to visit &/or study the "social experiment" of Awra Amba.
Awra Amba is not "perfect", but actively trying to be.
The movie is a fascinating glimpse of a place few, if any, have heard of -- at least in the western world -- yet "modern society" can learn much from it. (@ sev'l pts in the movie, I was struck by the "coincidences?" that Ethiopia is not only where the (supposed) "Ark of the Covenant" is purportedly being protected, but the famous stone tablet given the "Black Race" by 1 of the two Great Brother's of the Hopi (either in Ethiopia or at the base of Mt Kenya of the Kikuyu Tribe).
Awra Amba will leave you with more questions than answers; more possibilities than certainties not of how things MUST be but ways they *can*. This is truly a marvelous little (29 minute) film about an even more marvellous People & culture
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A Grain of Sand by Joseph Johnson Cami
posted on 2011-10-05 04:28:49 0 repliesATTN: Facebookers, et al! Interested in promo'ing a cause via film? An indie film fan wishing to supp't the independent spirits who make'em? VODO.NET is the site for you!
In "A Grain of Sand," Mr. Grimshaw ("Brendon" -- for by film's end the viewer knows the Heart of this man), a former wolrld reknowned editor, gave up everythg to create & then live in this veritable Garden of Eden.
He makes the point, sev'l times thruout the movie, he doesn't believe "most" people would do w/o the 'modern conveniences' his island won't provide -- especially "a wife."
(I think he's sorely missing the mark where today's women are concerned... I, for one, would give up all I have ('cept my dog - LOL) to live such an existence!)
He also makes a point of the difficulty transporting ppl to & from his island for the help needed to maintain it... again, a miscalculation. I know many a "tree-hugger" who would try *swimming* to it, once s/he knew the beauty awaiting them on "other end of the rainbow..." A virtual paradise on Earth.
But developers are infringing upon his island, wishing him to sell out for yet another mega resort & as his time grows short, wonders not only how much longer he can care for his island alone, who, if any, will take his place when he Passes & the ultimate fate of this wondrous little pc of Heaven on Earth.
In light of the Global Revolut'n happ'ning rt now, as I write this, will it be too late for Moyenne Island or will we awaken & see the REAL riches of Our Mother, the Earth in time to save Her?
A MUST SEE for EVERYONE who Loves this Planet. (Hang on, Gaia! "We" are Coming!)
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