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AULab 2025: SESSION 4 and 4++

AULab 2025 _________________________________________________________________________ RECORDINGS – 23rd OCTOBER SESSION Here is the SESSION Below is the WINDOW PROJECT a multi-screen performance as it happened on the 23rd of October 2025 ………………… After the 4th session many sessions happened, in which we initiated a more practical approach going into two different directions: So stay tuned! …………

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VIOLENCE / BEAUTY – AULab 2025: SESSION 3

AULab 2025 ZOOM SESSION NOTES, RECORDS AND LINKS (Next we share the exchange-conversation happened on Thursday May 29th 2025 between the group that assist to this 3rd session) NOTES ON THE ZOOM MEETING and AUDIOVISUALS SHARED IN THE MEETING E. Perverse beauty of violence in commercial cinema. Investigation of the relationship between violence and beauty

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WHERE DO WE CUT? – AULab 2025: SESSION 2

AULab 2025 Vanessa’s email [10 April 2025 23.13]: Dear All, Thank you for your sharings. I completely agree on how the general violence desensitises us and also gets us used to a certain violence. Normalising it, subtly. The word violence in audiovisuals reminds me of Lars von Trier who enraged me when watching the film

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VIOLENCE – FISTS – ACTION – AULab 2025: SESSION 1

AULab 2025 _________________________________________________________________________ PRE-SESSION TEXT The following is the exchange-conversation that the members of The Ecoversities Audiovisual Lab (AuLab) had by email and whatsapp threads, as an initial input for the 1st 2025 session of the laboratory.. Emilio’s email [27Jan 2025 11.25]: Dear all, The second edition of the audiovisual workshop aims to improve the

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Unleashing Change makers | The kanthari impact leadership Journey

This film takes you inside kanthari, the Impact Leadership Institute named after the tiny but fiery Kanthari chili from Kerala, India. Experience firsthand the raw, emotional, and eye-opening stories of change-makers from around the world who have overcome unimaginable hardships and are now igniting positive impact in their communities. From survivors of childhood trauma and

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Ecoversidades Abya Yala: Hubo un Tiempo / There was a time

by Yeyo Beltrán https://youtu.be/Py7eL2fSZw4?si=GUb7jELg-VZ6oThr Nos contaron las abuelas que hubo un tiempo que habrá…Donde el agua fluye limpia desde el manantial hasta la mar océano.Nos dijeron los ancestros que hubo un tiempo que habrá…Donde la Tierra es madre y cobijo y no mercancía.Soñaron los abuelos que hay un tiempo que habrá…Donde Soberanía significa volar libre

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Portals at Hiraya: Letters of Healing

Story and Photos by Vanessa Meng Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing. – Arundhati Roy  We don’t live in a time that believes in portals. But, come close, listen: They exist.  Meeting Eva Wang at the Ecoversities Asia Region Conference in

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THE WINDOW PROJECT – AULab 2024: SESSIONS 5 & 6

Pre-session texts: [13/06, 12:55] Emilio’s email: My idea is based more on video than live intervention, but of course this is only one of the possible proposals. I think of a meeting where we can present and see our videos well.  We decide on a theme. For example: Peace.  No words, just videos. We each

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VISUAL LANGUAGE: POLITICAL AND ETHICAL IMPACT – AULab 2024: SESSION 4

Pre-session text: [02/05, 21:14] Emilio’s email: How to be author and spectator at the same time? How can an author control his or her ego without limiting imagination and creativity? How to be a spectator by exceeding our expectations and trying to grasp something that does not belong to us, that is far from our

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