finished watching Time Thieves
Para o #TerCinema desta semana, indico "Time Thieves" (2018). Aponta, entre outras coisas, como as empresas nos fazem trabalhar de graça para elas, com os serviços de auto-atendimento: além de não recebermos pelo trabalho, gastamos nosso tempo (aliás, o trabalho remunerado pode ser visto como uma troca de tempo por dinheiro). Me fez lembrar do filme "O preço do amanhã" (In time, 2011).
finished watching Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary
Excelente documentário. Há entrevistas com Gabe Newell, diversos membros da equipe de produção, incluindo desenvolvedores e o roteirista (Marc Laidlaw).
Falam dos bastidores de produção até brigas judiciais com a distribuidora. Mas os pontos altos são aqueles em que cada responsável por uma parte comenta como as ideias foram concebidas e vemos o trecho em questão no jogo. Para citar alguns exemplos: expressões faciais, física, puzzles, uso de veículos, inteligência artificial dos inimigos etc.
Falam sobre como a parte da Gravity Gun "turbinada" foi algo não planejado inicialmente.
Também há comentários sobre as "expansões": Episode One e Episode Two. Neste último, o cara que concebeu a mecânica do trecho final a explica enquanto rolam as imagens do jogo. É minha parte favorita, mas não costumo dar os detalhes para não estragar para quem ainda não jogou.
Por fim, o documentário encerra mostrando cenas inéditas (ao menos para mim) do desenvolvimento inicial do Episódio 3, como uma arma que cria barreiras e até rampas de gelo:
https://youtu.be/YCjNT9qGjh4?t=6814
Também explicam porque o Episódio 3 não foi lançado. Se é uma justificativa sincera ou não, não sei. Mas faz sentido: muitos membros da equipe trabalharam por mais de 8 anos na franquia, que é conhecida por sempre trazer uma grande inovação em relação aos jogos anteriores. E parecia não haver espaço para isso desta vez. Particularmente, acho que eles também têm medo de manchar a imagem desta propriedade intelectual. Fato é que elevaram tanto a barra, que fica difícil superar o patamar que chegaram. Acredito que jamais veremos Half-Life ² Episode Three ou Half-Life³.
James Brown in Kinshasa (1974)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/james-brown-kinshasa-1974/
James Brown in Kinshasa? Yes, in 1974! James Brown, the Godfather on the stage for the “Soul Power” concert in Kinshasa in ’74 in a large extract from the documentary released as DVD in 2008. […]
Premieres at the New York African Film Festival on May 24
https://whenisayafrica.com/
"The film looks at the dynamic and asks a simple question: Who exactly are we trying to save Africa from?"
started watching Voyage of the Continents
This seems like a good #documentary series on #geology. Not quite the production quality of the BBC though, is there anything similar produced by them?
Life has a rhythm…
https://amf.didiermary.fr/life-rhythm-foli/
Life has a rhythm, it’s constantly moving.
It is a word that encompasses so much more than drumming, dancing or sound.
It’s found in every part of daily life.
In this film, you not only hear and feel rhythm, but you see it.
[…]
Requiem for a revolution
A sweeping, jazz-scored exploration of Cold War intrigue and African liberation, Johan Gimonprez’s 'Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat' lays bare the cultural and political battlegrounds where empires, artists, and freedom fighters clashed.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/01/requiem-for-a-revolution
To continue the Anarchist Sunday School, I found the Arte documentary *No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism* via Peertube.
Unfortunately without playlist, so I made one myself:
https://tube.todon.eu/w/p/g6hSEUo7c3V5cQxPyEuq17
I shared this years ago as well, but it now it has five parts, instead of three. The newer parts are about the period after the Second World War. Those are with French audio, but it has multiple subtitles. Enjoy! 
Steve Shehan, de Bali à Baly
https://amf.didiermary.fr/steve-shehan-bali-baly-documentary/
@steveshehan vous invite au voyage dans ce documentaire qui retrace son parcours et sa rencontre avec Baly Othmani dans un film-documentaire, ci-dessous dans son intégralité (in French, with English subtitles), “Assikel, de Bali à Baly”, qui retrace le chemin parcouru de Bali, l’île d’Indonésie, à Baly, l’homme bleu…
Real World – Magic week in 1991 (documentary)
Real World Recorded is a documentary on a magic week where 70+ artists from 20+ countries gathered together in 1991 in England to work & record.
A video essay on Fela Kuti, Nigeria’s most political musical icon, directed by Akinola Davies Jr, including interviews with Seun & Femi Kuti.
Spoken word and music by Nigerian musician Obongjayar.
"The death of his mum too really broke him."
One Day Go Be One Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWFBcjfY0M
"Death is not Silence"
From Angola to the World… Buraka Som Sistema
https://amf.didiermary.fr/from-angola-to-world-buraka-som-sistema/
Buraka Som Sistema was an electronic dance music project from Portugal, specializing in a fusion of techno beats with the African Zouk and Kuduro genre. It is generally credited with creating the “zouk bass” and “progressive kuduro” variant and has received an MTV European Music Award. […]
Highlife Music of Ghana and Nigeria
https://amf.didiermary.fr/highlife-music-ghana-nigeria-60s-70s/
70s Highlife Music from Ghana and Nigeria in this documentary, unfortunately lacking all the songs and performers names. If you know, please comment below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pTBW-NsbSA
#60smusic #70smusic #Compilation #Documentary #FelaKuti #Ghana #Highlife #Nigeria
…a film of about 80 minutes, published in January 2025, and worth every minute of your time, which explains the left-right political divide in the Jewish population of the US. This film makes very clear what motivates Jewish pro-Palestinian people in the US to protest since even before genocidal war restarted on 2023-Oct-7, and their reasons are really the most simple, relatable form of peaceful humanitarianism that you will ever see anywhere. I felt moved by how their Jewish faith makes their conviction in peace and humanitarianism so powerful. It seems in light of this most recent genocide, the views of this new generation of Jewish pro-Palestinian rights activists are slowly becoming more mainstream. Of course this invites the reactionaries to fight back against them, and we hear some of their voices in this film as well.
#USPol #Gaza #genocide #Israel #Palestine #FreePalestine #Judaism #SimoneZimmerman #IfNotNow #Documentary
Zambia’s 70s Psych Rock Scene
https://amf.didiermary.fr/zambia-70s-psych-rock-scene-zamrock/
Zambia’s 70s Psych Rock Scene, aka Zamrock!
Zamrock thrived for only a few years in the mid-70s, but its bands produced some incredibly catchy rock anthems. Taking influence from a diverse range of sounds like Jimi Hendrix, The Velvet Underground, afrobeat and Zambian folk, Zamrock is an incredibly rich and fun genre to sink your […]
#70smusic #Documentary #Psychedelic #Zambia #Zamrock #Rock #AltRock
Zomba Prison Project – I Have No Everything Here
https://amf.didiermary.fr/zomba-prison-project-i-have-no-everything-here/
In the summer of 2013, Grammy-winning producer, Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, TV on the Radio) and his wife, Italian photographer and filmmaker, Marilena Delli, traveled to the south of Malawi specifically to document and record the music of prisoners at the maximum security prison in Zomba [as part of the “Zomba Prison Project”]. […]
Post-independence Malian orchestras
https://amf.didiermary.fr/post-independence-malian-orchestras/
Have never seen this (French) documentary about post-independence Malian orchestras… It seems it was a short film, 20 minutes or so, by Florent Mazzoleni & Arthur Borgnis, distributed by Anae Productions. Could only find this teaser…
If you like the great post-independence Malian orchestras between 1960 and 1980, like Rail Band, Super Biton, etc. there’s […]
