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Enviado: Lunes 18 de marzo de 2013 19:02
Asunto: [Frameworks] ELEPHANTS AND FILM
Esteemed cohorts everyone,
What I really love besides Experimental Film are Elephants.
I LOVE all Elephants but especially those that live free in the wild.
I
I need to be clear and then I'll be quiet.
I am not interested in thinking of ways to kill elephants.
I stand in awe and wonder in front of all animals endangered and
otherwise,
I love all the living creatures of this planet.
Right now today the Elephant is being wiped out with a brutality
Edison and Topsy, the salad days of cinema.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Brecht Debackere
bre...@visualantics.netwrote:
'Unsere Afrika Reise' by Peter Kubelka is a wonderful experimental film
leaving behind a bitter taste and a feeling of disgust for people killing
for fun in Africa;
This is tragic and infuriating.
Why can't anyone tell the Chinese people that elephants are threatened? If
elephants are extinct there will be NO MORE IVORY. Don't they have media in
China? Get the word out.
Why don't the Chinese import some elephants and start their own herd? They
could
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Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] ELEPHANTS AND FILM
Sandy,
I agree with you.
(I don't have all the answers.
I just know my heart is breaking.)
I want filmmakers on this list to understand that this is happening right now.
I want people to take a look
Not advocating. I don't want to see any elephants killed. I have no interest
in ivory. I can't understand how there could be people who do not understand
that elephants should never be killed. BUt there are. There are people who lie
for money and people who listen to them. Moreover people who
