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art
AYIA - Easy
Salomon Ligthelm explores the abstract journey of a young manโs interaction with an ominous monolithic being, losing his mind and grasp of reality.
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Prince - Mary Don't You Weep
โThe system is broken. Itโs going to take the young people to fix it this time. We need new ideas, new lifeโฆโ. Prince The messaging in this video links thematically to Princeโs past activist work in Baltimore in 2015 and the resulting riots that ensued in the city and beyond. That year, Prince released a protest song titled โBaltimoreโ โ along with an accompanying documentary style video โ directed squarely at the need for more compassion and peace, an ever-present theme he echoed through his career. The โBaltimoreโ video ends with the above quote, which Prince delivered during an impassioned speech at his 2015 Rally 4 Peace concert. This video begins with that same quote, a symbolic reminder underscoring Princeโs earlier messaging and a timely reflection on the need for positive change. The video pays tribute to the scores of teens and children affected by gun-related violence every year in the USA.
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art
YOU WILL NOT HAVE MY HATRED
"I vividly remember the morning I read these powerful words for the first time. It was a cold November afternoon and a friend of mine had shared it on Instagram. As I was reading, I glanced over at my son playing in the living room - he was 17 months old, and I started coming undone. My wife looked over at me and I couldn't speak, I just handed her the phone, and she also just came undone. These words had stuck with me for 4 years and they haven't let go of me. How can a man, who had suffered so much, have a such a spirit of resilience and grace? Thank you Antoine Leiris for seeing the world unlike how most people see it - for showing a way that flows in the opposite direction of hate, and retaliation. Its words like yours that change the world. This film is a contemplative meditation on those words, be patient with it." -Salomon Ligthelm