Earlier: From Texas to Florida, Louisiana, and New Jersey, this film reveals how librarians across the country have become victims of a crisis manufactured by national organizations bent on infiltrating and disrupting local school boards.
https://www.texasobserver.org/librarians-movie-sxsw-book-bans/
"NO OTHER LAND" (2024), #documentary film directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.
“There’s a new #documentary celebrating the history and impact of #libraries heading to PBS, and the trailer released today touches on the unequivocal positive impact they—and the #librarians who work there—have on communities.”
Earlier: At a moment when our institutions of learning seem to be engulfed in flames, incited by right-wing witch hunts of diversity, equity, and inclusion, The Librarians reminds us how we got here and reveals, perhaps, how we can get out. https://www.texasobserver.org/librarians-movie-sxsw-book-bans/
In December 1988, artist Ricky Boscarino was on the hunt for real estate. “It was really my boyhood ambition to build my dream house, where literally all my dreams could come true,” he says in the short documentary “Electric Garden.” Little did he know that over the course of the next four decades, a dilapidated hunting cabin would transform into a veritable way of life.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/ricky-boscarino-electric-garden/
From the studio to her childhood bedroom in Columbus, Georgia, to the museum, "Singular Moments" from Art21 presents a broad portrait of painter Amy Sherald.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/amy-sherald-singular-moments/
My ★★★★★ review of I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (2015) on #letterboxd: https://boxd.it/9dRHxn
The amazing #documentary "My Octopus Teacher" is not only beautiful, it gives you a window into the life of the #octopus and a beautiful story of an amazing friendship with a human 
In film: @josephinelee writes that these librarians are risking their safety and livelihood to speak up for First Amendment rights, intellectual freedom, and, most of all, for the students who tell them “books have saved them.” https://www.texasobserver.org/librarians-movie-sxsw-book-bans/
From #Texas to Florida, Louisiana, and New Jersey, the film reveals how librarians across the country have become victims of a crisis manufactured by national organizations bent on infiltrating and disrupting local school boards. https://www.texasobserver.org/librarians-movie-sxsw-book-bans/
New from @josephinelee: At a moment when our institutions of learning seem to be engulfed in flames, incited by right-wing witch hunts of diversity, equity, and inclusion, The Librarians reminds us how we got here and reveals, perhaps, how we can get out. https://www.texasobserver.org/librarians-movie-sxsw-book-bans/
#documentary #film #SXSW #censorship #library #books #bookstodon #politics #USpol @film @bookstodon
In solidarity and light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their #films about #Palestine available online for free.
In this thread you'll find links to films you can view and share to get the message out to the world:
• A collection of documentaries published by Al Jazeera Documentary:https://bit.ly/3yp2nBI - https://bit.ly/2SSpMeC - https://bit.ly/3f0KK3P
• "Keeper of Memory" documentary:https://youtu.be/eywuYeflWzg
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How decades of factory farming paved the way for today’s superbugs crisis.
A new film lays bare the existential threat driven by antibiotic overuse – and comes after years of warnings.
This #YouTube channel is so worth perusing... lots of short, beautifully scripted and shot videos about big science topics, like Time. Entrancing.
If you're feeling anxious, and who among us isn't, I prescribe Margreth Olin’s SONGS OF EARTH (2023).
It's part nature documentary, part memoir of her elderly father and the Norwegian valley that is his ancestral home.
Stunningly beautiful, calming, healing. Streaming on Criterion Channel + Kanopy (free with a library card).
Not for the faint of heart, #Portland #cult music fam: Tonight at Hollywood, "S/He is Still Her/e", a 2020 #documentary about Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle's #trans front... person? Genesis P-Orridge. #lgbtqia #creativity
https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/s-he-is-still-her-e-the-official-genesis-p-orridge-doc/
@gbhnews has a new podcast series, “Scratch & Win,” which is about the rise of America’s most successful lottery. Expect tales of organized crime, the FBI, and U.S. politics — just another day in America, in other words.
