I recently came across these two short films by the French director Chris Marker (1921-2012) from Bestiaire (1990). The first one is a cat sleeping on a piano. And the second a series of owls, mostly swivelling their heads rather amazingly. Looking at the cat, I realised for the first time that sleeping can be... Continue Reading →
How to say “extinction” in Chumyl: “The Linguists”, a film.
If you are interested in language and languages you might like to see the film "The Linguists". The film, presented as "a very foreign language film", is about David Harrison and Gregory Anderson, two researchers who travel the world to document vanishing languages. Most of the action takes place in Siberia, India and Bolivia and... Continue Reading →