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04/22/2023

A wonderful lecture by author, biologist, and professor, Robin Wall Kimmerer. Happy Earth Day!

Robin Wall Kimmerer takes us on a guided nature tour of Clark Reservation State Park in Jamesville, NY as Spring welcomes back migrating creatures and sends ...

04/22/2023

Happy Earth Day to you all, near and far!

12/23/2022

...a little message for the season from Diorama Room and Tune in to Green.

12/15/2022

I highly recommend this book as a way to bring all the different issues we are facing into a comprehensible and holistic view. It has graphics, charts, and other illustrations to help readers visualize the content. It gives recommendations for individuals and governments. Understanding the details and big picture make it easier to see that those of us who have what we need, should be making changes in our habits to lessen the impact of our consumption.

11/28/2022

Artist Highlight: The seventeenth video in “TUNE in to GREEN – Minor Chord II” is by Elin Johnston of Belfast, Northern Ireland. “Memoria” is a pilgrimage of mind and body: memory, place, and loss, are evoked in a contemplative ode of remembrance, expressing the sense of presence and emotion that remains imbued and embedded within particular conjunctions of time, location, and lived experience.
As a poetry film the work also reflects upon how, although time is without form, its true measure slips away, simultaneously imperceptible, indeterminate, beyond reach.

To watch the trailer and/or experience her full video amongst a curated selection of 16 other short films, visit https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tuneintogreen by November 30th at 11:59 PM US Central Standard Time. You have 72-hours to watch the program as long as you rent it before then.

11/28/2022

Artist Highlight: The sixteenth video in “TUNE in to GREEN – Minor Chord II” is by Alexandre Ries of Lille, France. Filmed in Finland, the title of his short, “Puu O)))”, is named after the Finnish word for tree followed by characters symbolizing a concentric circle and waves on water. With sound by Pierre Denjean, the experimental audio and imagery are synced perfectly in order to produce synesthesia in the viewer.

To watch the trailer and/or experience his full video amongst a curated selection of 16 other short films, visit https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tuneintogreen by November 30th at 11:59 PM US Central Standard Time. You have 72-hours to watch the program as long as you rent it before then.

11/28/2022

Artist Highlight: The fifteenth video in “TUNE in to GREEN – Minor Chord II” is by Stephanie Reid of Austin, Texas. Her short, “Elegy in Dust”, explores the means by which trees, birds, and humans communicate with and are interdependent upon each other.

To watch the trailer and/or experience her full video amongst a curated selection of 16 other short films, visit https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tuneintogreen by November 30th at 11:59 PM US Central Standard Time. You have 72-hours to watch the program as long as you rent it before then.

11/28/2022

Artist Highlight: The fourteenth video in “TUNE in to GREEN – Minor Chord II” is by Tess Elliot of Norman, Oklahoma. In her Super 8mm film, “77 Genesee Bay Boulevard”, she documents the destruction of a residential property including a 150-year-old Long Island elm tree. Protect trees! Please.

To watch the trailer and/or experience her full video amongst a curated selection of 16 other short films, visit https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tuneintogreen by November 30th at 11:59 PM US Central Standard Time. You have 72-hours to watch the program as long as you rent it before then.

11/27/2022

Artist Highlight: The thirteenth video in “TUNE in to GREEN – Minor Chord II” is by Hannah Hamalian of Eugene, Oregon. In her video, “Growing Closure”, remembering her therapist's advice to think about her life as a garden, she moves paper around and touches moss to process her feelings as she mourns the loss of a tree.

To watch the trailer and/or experience her full video amongst a curated selection of 16 other short films, visit https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tuneintogreen by November 30th.

11/27/2022

Artist Highlight: The twelfth video in “TUNE in to GREEN – Minor Chord II” is by Camila Perales of La Paz, Bolivia. Her film “Ofrenda” (Offering), addresses the notion of death in ancient Andean sacrificial rituals. Death is not fear, but life and is part of the community cycle. This work is part of the Andean Death Trilogy, in which the Aymara and Bolivian cultures is represented from the image of the child Jesus, a religious figure that synthesizes syncretism and the adaptation of local myths in the Catholic religion as a strategy of survival in Aymara culture. In addition, the ancient tradition of reappropriation and syncretism of myths and religion.

To watch the trailer and/or experience his full video amongst a curated selection of 16 other short films, visit https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tuneintogreen by November 30th.

11/27/2022

Artist Highlight: The eleventh video in “TUNE in to GREEN – Minor Chord II” is by Carles Pamies of Barcelona, Spain. His experimental animation “NATURE MORTE Vanites 01” (Still Life, Vanity 01) is accompanied by this dark poem reminding us of the vanity in earthly delights and striving:

PAIN
intimate death
the vulnerable body
the cyclical journey
breathing deep and sad
a destiny in eclipse
and in your daily life
the collapse of your faith
the tremulous writing
the abandoned stroke

To watch the trailer and/or experience his full video amongst a curated selection of 16 other short films, visit https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tuneintogreen by November 30th.

11/26/2022

Artist Highlight: The tenth film in “TUNE in to GREEN – Minor Chord II” is by Claudine Metrick of New York. Her animated video “The Wink”, is a collection of paintings inspired by Werner's Nomenclature of Colors that experience a bizarre transformation.

To watch the trailer and/or experience her full video amongst a curated selection of 16 other short films, visit https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tuneintogreen by November 30th!