Interviews
Wind at Experimental Brasil Festival (July, 2023)1. Hi Mike. How are you? Please tell our readers a little bit about yourself and your work. I’m burned out, depressed, living on screens. It took me many years to learn how to make a movie, or even to … Continue reading
Books
Birgit Heindownload the PDF Viva Birgit Hein by Caspar Stracke (Facebook, September 26, 2023) Here is a free, downloadable .pdf for those of you interested to read about one of the most exciting key figures in feminist, structural, hard-core experimental European … Continue reading
Michael Stone
Politics 3: Communities of CareBased on a talk by Michael Stone delivered at Centre of Gravity, Toronto. Burn Out I think for many of us burn out is something we don’t recognize. The first form of burn out is vital exhaustion. It’s caused by … Continue reading
Michael Stone
Politics 2: What is Needed?Notes on a talk by Michael Stone at Centre of Gravity Service I’m here because I find that doing this practice and sharing it with other people and working with other people and listening and talking to other people about … Continue reading
Michael Stone
Politics 1: Engaged BuddhistsNotes on a talk by Michael Stone at Centre of Gravity, September 2010 Meeting This summer (August 9-14, 2010) there was a meeting of “engaged Buddhists” which was quite exciting. 70 of the leading Buddhist teachers in North America came, … Continue reading
Michael Stone
Love, Breath, Self-form, Politics and the Subtle BodyOn September 4, 2010, I attended the wedding of my friends Pat Rockman and Bryan Moran. On the way back I caught a ride with Michael Stone who answered some Buddhist psychology questions with his usual charm. Awareness Michael: Awareness … Continue reading
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Yoga and BuddhismNotes on a talk by Michael Stone at Centre of Gravity Nowadays in popular magazines, Yoga and Buddhism love each other. And unfortunately, and this happens sometimes in popular magazines, Yoga is reduced to a body practice and the dharma … Continue reading
Essays
Waves intro (June 2023)Innis Town Hall, June 23, 2023 Introduction to screening of Waves (64 minutes 2022) I’d like to thank the Ad Hoc Collective – Stephen and Jim, Madi, Tess and Bart for making tonight possible. It feels both special and unexpected … Continue reading
On Artists
Rhayne VermetteNot Mad with Anger Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. Malcolm X It’s a curious moment for artist’s movies. How many … Continue reading
Copyright
Dilla Time (2022)Dilla Time by Dan Charnas Short excerpt from the brilliantly researched book by the premier J Dilla (James Yancey) scholar. Making beats is always a conversation between producers, and between the present and the past. James’s tracks in the 1990s … Continue reading
