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to witness his behavioral experiments with
the primates, showing us how he
determined what constitutes chimpanzee
laughter, and how he distinguishes
between different vocalizations and facial
expressions.
From these discipline-defining studies, A
NATURAL HISTORY OF LAUGHTER
expands outwards as Mitsch's scientist
subjects track the broader implications of
their findings. They leave us with a series
of suggestive questions. How do animals
experience emotions? Is laughter at the
root of human empathy? Does laughter
contribute to or indicate overall health?
Prompting these thoughts and many
others, this informative film is bound also
to make you laugh - but not in the ways
you expected.
Item no. : FC03210840
Format : DVD (Color)
Duration : 48 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 348.00
PERFECT PERFECT RUNNER, RUNNER, THE
THE
Explore the miracle of running through the
science of human evolution.
How did our ancestors survive the shift
from trees to land? How did Homo sapiens
evolve to dominate the planet? How did
our ancestors hunt before they developed
weapons? The answer, you'll be amazed
to learn, is that humans became nature's
perfect endurance runners.
From Africa's Great Rift Valley to the
highlands of Ethiopia, from the most
remote place in Arctic Siberia to one of the
world's toughest ultra marathons in the
Canadian Rockies, anthropologist and
host Niobe Thompson takes us on a
journey that weaves cutting-edge science
with gripping adventure, and asks what
today's runners can learn from our
evolutionary past.
Finally understand the science and sport
of barefoot running. Meet Harvard's
"barefoot professor" – Dr. Daniel
Lieberman – the father of the barefoot
running movement, and learn how running
was key to the evolution of modern
humans. In a pioneering study of running
biomechanics, Lieberman has shown how
modern running shoes encourage a
running style humans were never evolved
to withstand, and which likely underpins
the epidemic in running injuries we see
today.
Item no. : DH04061297
Format : DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration : 45 minutes
Audience : Grades 9-12, Adult
Education, Post
Secondary
Copyright : 2012
Price : USD 188.00
BULLYING
#BULLYPROOF
#BULLYPROOF
One in three Canadian students from
grade 7 to 12 are victims of bullying.
Internationally, Canada ranks a dismal
27th out of 35 countries when it comes to
bullying and victimization. The numbers
speak for themselves, but who are the
faces behind the statistics?
Connect with Mark Kelley goes back to
high school to find out in bullyPROOF:
Classroom Confidential, a documentary
that is emotional, compelling and raw.
While on location at a Quebec high school,
the Connect team sets up a "Bully Booth"
where students and teachers privately
share their personal experiences with
bullying.
Item no. : YH03921274
Format : DVD (Closed Captioned)
Duration : 45 minutes
Audience : Grades 8-12, Adult
Education, Post
Secondary
Copyright : 2012
Price : USD 208.00
BUSINESS AND
ECONOMICS
FUTURES FUTURES MARKET
MARKET
By Mercedes Alvarez
A film essay in tableaux, FUTURES
MARKET traces the connections between
memory, public space, and the real estate
bubbles that led to the international
financial crisis.
Beginning with Greek lyric poet Simonides
of Ceos' invention of the 'memory palace' -
in which memories are arranged in an
imagined physical space - the film
suggests that the recent flurry of
credit-fueled property development has
depleted not only national treasuries, but
the distinctive characters of these nation's
cities -- and therefore, their cultural
memory as well.
FUTURES MARKETS takes us inside the
fluorescent-lit showrooms of real estate
expos, where developers hawk shares in
hotel and condo projects in places from
Dubai to Miami. Outside, cars crawl
forward on endless stretches of
anonymous highway whose "straight lines
point in the direction of promises." This is
Spain, but it could be almost anywhere in
the world.
"The art of memory was practiced by
philosophers, poets, and architects", a
narrator tells us. In the film we see the art
of forgetting is practiced by the real estate
developers, as well as business school
gurus - who pledge the keys to success in
the same convention centers. Meanwhile,
investment bankers bark orders into
multiple phones, trading futures in their
non-descript offices. All peddle the same
dream: a tidy and prosperous future in
identical spaces the world over.
To make room for these new dreams,
history must be evacuated. FUTURES
MARKET meditates on great art works
from the past by painters like Bosch,
Michelangelo, Mantegna, and Raphael.
The grand philosophical and spiritual
visions represented in their paintings have
been replaced by the vulgar ones
embodied by the glass tower condos and
infinity pools in gleaming architectural
models.
A modest alternative is offered with the
introduction of Jesus Castro, a 92-year-old
junk dealer more interested in collecting
than selling. We watch movers cleaning
out an apartment in an old building slated
for demolition, bagging up the books,
furniture, and religious artifacts that
bespeak a particular cultural identity. They
turn up in the new repository of cultural
memory: not a palace, but Castro's flea
market. His stubborn refusal to bow to the
marketplace's demand to forget makes
him the hero of this film, which illustrates
how little most of us choose to remember.
Reviews
� "A compelling meditation on dreams
that doubles as an expose of how
cheap those dreams have become,
"Futures Market" is a wise and
fulfilling film that bears lofty
comparison with the work of Spanish
maestro helmers Victor Erice and
Jose Luis Guerin." - Variety
� "Draw[s] attention to the invisible
architects of the postmodern
economy at the moment before it
crashed, and...between what is
discarded and devalued and the
inflation of false values and dreams." -
Sight & Sound
Award
� Jury Special Mention, 2011 Buenos
Aires International Festival of
Independent Cinema (BAFICI)
Item no. : NV03210837
Format : DVD (Color)
Duration : 110 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 398.00
BUSINESS
PRACTICES
SHIFT SHIFT CHANGE
CHANGE
Directed by Melissa Young and Mark
Dworkin
Investigates employee-owned businesses
that provide secure, dignified jobs in
democratic workplaces even in today's
economic crisis.
Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work
tells the little known stories of
employee-owned businesses that
compete successfully in today's economy
while providing secure, dignified jobs in
democratic workplaces.
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