FILM
A look at Pina - a dance film/eulogy best avoided by those confounded by contemporary convulsing
by Sarah Fletcher
07.02.2012
Perhaps I should have smoked a joint before this one. Alas, I exited this 3D experimental dance film clouded in sober confusion. What in hell was up with the hippo, and why did the lovely dancer in silk fondle him with such graceful abandon? She’s way out of his league, though he doesn’t seem to [...]
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BOOKS
Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, by Charlotte Gill, Greystone Books
by Gina Roitman
05.02.2012
Travelling by camper van around New Zealand, a land where 70% of the endemic forests have disappeared over the last 180 years, there seemed no more suitable place to crack open Charlotte Gill’s riveting and disturbing account of 20 years as a tree-planter in the forests of Canada. Make that, a tree-planter where the forests used to be.
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