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Film
Cocoon

Students share their perspectives during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

by Andrew Hinton
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Film
We Became Fragments

This story documents a Syrian teenager who comes of age in Canada after losing his mother and four siblings in a bombing that left him injured.

by Luisa Conlon , Lacy Roberts and Hanna Miller
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Film
The Lindworm

Mythologist and storyteller Martin Shaw tells an old Norwegian tale about a mythical creature that is part human and part snake.

by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Adam Loften
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Lesson Plan
High School
Grade Level: 9-12
Clowning Around
Companion Film
Laugh Clown Laugh
by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
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Essay
Forty Days

Kingsnorth urges us to contemplate the productive meaning of loneliness and withdrawal.

by Paul Kingsnorth
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Film
The Ocean Inside

A meditation on surfing and the ocean, filmed off the coast of West Marin, California.

by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
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Film
Laugh Clown Laugh

A portrait of Berlin based clown Reinhard "Filou" Horstkotte explores poetics of performance, laughter and spontaneity. 

by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
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Essay
The Future As Seen From Greenland
Author Craig Childs confronts the reality of climate change from a remote scientific outpost on Greenland's ice sheet.
by Craig Childs
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Film
Path of Freedom

In a Rhode Island men’s prison, a group of fifty inmates are transforming their lives through the practice of meditation.

by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
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