I felt a real connection to the comparison of Sleeping Muse and Duchamp's Fountain. I just watched Persona by Ingmar Bergman this weekend and was so refreshed by the honesty in which they discussed abortion and motherhood in 1966. Meanwhile Jacques Demy was making musicals that resisted form and were full of color, Kubrick was making incredible flying space babies in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Agnes Varda was making a documentary about Black Panthers that didn't narrate, but rather let the people of the Free Huey rally speak for themselves. It just blew my mind that in such a rich discussion of codependency and openness between women was happening in Sweden while the rest of the world reeled with different subjects and forms. It feels like it's from another dimension or a time undefined. They all are from the same span of couple of years, but feel like they were born in different worlds from each other. Obviously current films draw inspiration from Bergman, Kubrick, Varda and Demy and so I can find links like Stonehenge to Roden Crater. For example, Bergman's Persona deals with women loving each other and becoming one woman, as does its successors Robert Altman's 3 Women and David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. Each details different perspectives of women's behavior with each other, devoid of men and how birth and sex affect their lives.
Issues that have been impacting my life and the ones around me mainly revolve around environmental issues. One of the pressing issues that affects the agriculture community in California is the State’s distribution of water. Now a tactic that the State Government has had for many years is to take water from Northern California and send it down to the South. The south is in need of water as they do not get enough to support themselves, but the issue is a bit larger and encompuses the states refusal to create more reservoirs to store water to be used during the dryer months. But the main issue is that the focus is uneven and falls heavily on the side of sending it to the south instead of distributing it evenly so farmers in all regions but mainly central and southern california have the proper amount of water to grow their crops. California is one of the leading states in the production and exporting of agriculture products due to our vast and wide scale of geological environments, but ...
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