In any way that men love me, in that same way they find my love: for many are the paths of men, but they all in the end come to me.
Krsihna, Bhagavad Gita 4:11
There are many paths or religions to reach God, but only one common ground, Love.
In the way we manifest our love for ourselves and others, God is impacted.
Bearing without possessing, Nurturing without taming, Shaping without forcing, This is harmony. Harmony is only in following THE WAY.
THE WAY is without form or quality, But expresses all forms and qualities; THE WAY is hidden and implicate, But expresses all of nature; THE WAY is unchanging, But expresses all motion.
Beneath sensation and memory THE WAY is the source of all the world. How can I understand the source of the world? By accepting."
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Written around the sixth century B.C.
AS I HAVE FAITH SO SHALL MY POWERS AND BLESSINGS BE, AND AS TO THE EXTENT THAT I AFFIRM THAT THIS IS POSSIBLE, THIS IS POSSIBLE. I ALONE HAVE THE KEY, TO UNLOCK THE CAGE AND LET THE BIRD FLY FREE.
"A little of This is beyond all fear and eliminates all fear" Krishna said to Arjuna on the battlefield.
Let nothing upset you; Let nothing frighten you. Everything is changing; God alone is changeless. Patience attains the goal. Who has God lacks nothing: God alone fills all our needs.
Teresa of Avila
by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 - 1680)
Marc Larre Miranda is a young artist from Barcelona in NYC self-imposing a rite-of-passage. Inspired by the Situationist Movement and Guy Debord's philosophy he wants to experience the spontaneity of life as a transient progressing through ambiences. Marc never imagined that he'd be a witness to 9/11. Looking to survive and to honor New York he creates a poetic piece of art from matchbooks that he sells on Prince Street in Soho.
Watch SOUVENIR VIEWS at INDIEPIXFILMS.COM to download onto your computer!
SOUVENIR VIEWS was shot in New York City and Barcelona. Immediately after the tragic World Trade Center Attack on 9/11, Marc creates a small piece of poetic beauty to sell and get by, that deliberately speaks to the heart of all New York mourners, while sleeping on a construction site, hungry, vulnerable and homeless.
Begonya filmed Marc with a handheld Sony camera, and followed his story over the span of 1 year. While living homeless in New York, to meeting with his affluent family in Barcelona though yearning for their son's return.
Marc's ingenuity and big heart brought him great fortune. He was invited to attend Cooper Union Art Institute a few months after "Souvenir Views" premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003.
Other festivals: Festival Internacional de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de Havana, Cuba, 2004 Gerona Film Festival of Spain, Festival Internacional de cortometrajes de Barcelona 2005, aired on IFC 2005-2006, and toured the universities: Dartmouth College (Women's Studies, and Theater Departments), and Wagner College (Psychology, Sociology and English Departments), also Young Filmmakers Program at Anthology Film Archives of New York.
Duration: 25 minutes / Subtitles: Spanish and English. Locations: New York City and its underground, and Barcelona. Digital video, aspect ratio: 3:2 (720x480), video screen ratio: 4:3, edited on Final Cut Pro.
OUTTAKES:
UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES
• DVD licensed with lifetime public performance rights: $200
* For electronic file/streaming rights or purchase orders
PUBLIC LIBRARIES, HIGH SCHOOLS & NON-PROFITS
• DVD licensed with lifetime public performance rights: $60
• Discounts available for multiple copies
* For electronic file/streaming rights or purchase orders
PERSONAL/HOME USE
* DVD: $30
Contact us: [email protected]
8 concerned and questioning young minds discuss what these elections mean to them and to the future of our nation and the world.
New York teens discuss the politics of these 2008 elections and the impact on OUR FUTURE.
On April 26, 1987 during the 50th Anniversary of the Bombing of Guernica-Lumo, its silenced survivors finally narrate their personal stories of that horrific day for my very personal and instinctual video documentary titled, Gernika Lives. This was the first aerial bombing on an innocent population in world history. Gernika is the emblem of Euskalerria, the Basque region in Northern Spain, and Southern France. My father told me that after the destruction, Spain's Fascist regime forced Guernica's survivors to falsify the truth of their reality and prohibited them to speak their language (unrelated to Spanish) in an attempt to abolish Basque identity, known for representing the indigenous peoples of Europe. This bombing apocalypse was not only a practice trial prior to WWII but served to threaten Euskadi, and Republican Spain
Prior to Gernika's bombing, when my aita was barely three, his family's comfortable chalet in Barakaldo was appropriated by the Fascist Nationalists. Having been left homeless they were forced to flee on cargo trains to France, and then to Barcelona until their return to the shattered remains of Guernica where they settled.
Written, directed, narrated, produced, and co-edited by Begonya Plaza
A co-production with K2000 in Bizkaia
Edited with Jack Tucker (Emmy winning editor)
Music by Xeberri and other distinguished Basque musicians (included in the film credits).
Film introduced by John Randolph (actor / activist, victim of McCarthyism)
Featuring: Basque artist/author Luis Iriondo, and historian, author Mario de Salegi
Dedicated to my father: Jesus Plaza
In Spanish, and Euskera with English Voice-Over & subtitles. 39".
GUERNICA by Pablo Picasso
In my early twenties I embarked on this passionate documentary adventure wanting to capture the voices and essence of Gernika's surviving witnesses. Each expresses his own profound traumatic memory, vividly painful still. As a child I would hear my aita (father) tell me stories of atrocities he, and his family endured during the constant air raids, and the Spanish Civil War. I would sit on his lap and watch his tears run down his cheeks, as he apologized for his traumatized fragility.
Reviews
Dear BegonyaThank you so much for the films which had arrived when I got back yesterday evening and watched. I loved them- such a personal journey for you. I especially liked Guernika Lives with its original footage and wonderful music to accompany it- very inspiring. I was even more horrified by the event and so touched by the courage and strength of the Basques- and the people who were interviewed. It must have been very emotional for your father. I so applaud their strength in holding on to their cultural and unique identity.On Saturday I will be sitting in the restaurant you recommended, thinking of the events, and will raise a glass to you and yours.Thank you again,Lesley - MiriamEngland, february, 2013
