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...could have handed this film to a much more mainstream distributor and had no relationship with the audience,” Subrin says. “It’s kind of fun, but it’s back-breaking work when you go to college campuses. It’s certainly not a financial move...
...fundamental, unanswered question of the film—whether a radical ideology can be made to fit the confines of mainstream society—is one that Green says he often wondered about...
Ever since a bitter debate over stem-cell research erupted in the summer of 2001, the mainstream press has tended to frame the controversy as a latter-day Scopes Trial—a conflict between religious zealots on one side and proponents of scientific rationalism on the other. And, to be sure, many people’s opposition to such research is an understandable function of their faith. Yet while the media are loath to acknowledge it, there is also a very solid case against stem-cell research based not in religiosity, but in logic and simple moral reasoning...
What is radical is Page's appointment as Australia's first indigenous director of a mainstream festival. He brings to the job the protocols he developed at Bangarra for bringing traditional art practices into the contemporary world. For Adelaide's opening ceremony, tea-tree bonfires were lit along the Torrens river, symbolically uniting the three local tribes, the Kaurna, Narrungga and Ngarrindjeri. On the opening weekend, a Sacred Symposium was held on how to present "secret" ceremonial knowledge, while Page's creative network has eased the way for the commissioning of indigenous work. "Another cultural consultation!" cries an Aboriginal urbanite...
...tool we've ever created. Nothing compares in terms of rate of improvement and the new things people do with it. Letting you organize your memories, making that easy to share, easy to go back to--we don't do that today. And yet now that digital photography's mainstream, we're going to do that...