From IMDB: “Ten years in the making, ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT follows the poignant journey of circus producer David Balding as he tries to find a nurturing and permanent home for Flora, the 18-year-old African elephant that he rescued as an infant, raised as his “daughter” and made the star of his circus.”
EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity’s absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called “non-human providers.” The film is narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby .
»Of all the films I have ever made this is the one that gets people talking the most. For every one person who sees EARTHLINGS they will tell three.«- Joaquin Phoenix
»A real testament to the quality of the film. EARTHLINGS is amazing!«- Professor Cristina Gibson UC Irvine
»Viewers will never be the same.«- Carly Harrill 944 Magazine»Monumental!!!«- Sean Karlin Greenpeace
»This is the single most powerful and informative movie about society’s treatment of animals. A must see for anyone who cares enough to know«- Woody Harrelson
Understanding of humans’ earliest past often comes from studying fossils. They tell us much of what we know about the people who lived before us. There is one thing fossils cannot tell us; at what point did we stop living day-to-day and start to think symbolically, to represent ideas about our environment and how we could change it? At a dig in South Africa the discovery of a small piece of ochre pigment, 70,000 years old, has raised some very interesting questions. Anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) emerged in Africa roughly 100,000 years ago. We know from fossil evidence that Homo sapiens replaced other hominids around them and moved out of Africa into Asia and the Middle East, reaching Europe 40,000 years ago. Prof Richard Klein believes art is a landmark in human evolution. Unquestionable art that’s widespread and common suggests you’re dealing with people just like us. No other animals, after all, are able to define a painting as anything other than a collection of colours and shapes. This ability is unique to humans. Other scientists agree. They believe art defines humans as behaviourally modern, and its beginning must coincide with the ability to speak and use language. If someone has the imagination to devise a shared way to describe their environment using art then it seems inconceivable that they could not possess language and speech. The search for the moment our ancestors became behaviourally just like us is also the hunt for the first evidence of art.
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It looks like Americans like to put things in cages to play with them:
Das Guantánamo-Experiment 48:29
Unter welchen Umständen können Folter und Gewalt im US-Gefangenenlager Guantánamo gerechtfertigt werden? Für ein ungewöhnliches Experiment haben sich sieben Freiwillige bereit erklärt, 48 Stunden in der nachgestellten Realität der Haftbedingungen in Guantánamo zu verbringen. Die Testpersonen waren erschüttert über die Folgen, die sie sich weniger gravierend vorgestellt hatten.
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