For three years, a film crew intimately documented the lives of everyday Americans who have been seriously injured immediately following their COVID-19 vaccination. In the process of documenting these diverse stories across the US, the filmmakers uncovered a larger story behind a successful campaign to conceal the true scope of injuries from these vaccines. What begins as a simple quest for appropriate medical care becomes an eye-opening journey that exposes the frightening reality behind the scenes of our nation’s healthcare system, federal regulatory agencies entrusted with our health and safety, and what has recently been described as “The Censorship Industrial Complex.”
The Agirre family, made up of Iñaki and Miren, and their children Aitor, Janire and Arene, is a wealthy family that enjoys a privileged position in Basque society. At the beginning of the story, a journalist interviews the perpetrator of the macabre murder of the owners of the well-known company “Talcos Agirre”. A call to the emergency services alerts the police to the event. The viewer is immersed in the intrigue surrounding the case until the identity of the murderer is revealed.
Missed connections, wrong turns. Impermanence and loss before death, an examination of my grief after the death of my grandfather. I’d never experienced death, but I’d experienced loss. Loss without death had been passive; I knew these people, no longer in my life, were still there, somewhere. There was very little to come to terms with. Death requires searching: is he here in photos, in voicemails, in an afterlife? The creation of this project has been a matter of processing, not just the loss of my grandfather, but understanding how my body reacts to change, whether the loss matters to me now or did in the past.
Of how many of our daily actions do we ask ourselves the real why? Especially if one is male, and if one's appearance is given so much for neutrality that it does not represent a disguise, but a simple inevitability of things. A female gaze invites men to ask themselves these whys.
Signatures of Earth is an experiment in repositioning documentary narrative hierarchies in the space age. The film aggregates fragmentary encounters from varying points of view, encountering cuttlefish and quasars, and much else in between, happened upon during a transcontinental journey to film the shadow of the moon. Challenging, in the tradition of Brechtian distanciation, the film is also poetic, ethereal, roving, contemplative, richly cinematic and empathetically engaged. Signatures of Earth presents a fractured vision of the cognitive and sensory muddle that is an antipodean road trip through the Anthropocene. It all makes sense as long as you don’t want it too.
Autocrats and populists use disinformation to influence public opinion worldwide. False reports are used to create confusion and weaken opponents. Russia relies on massive disinformation campaigns. “Tracks East” reports on this, including from the USA, where Donald Trump accuses traditional media of spreading fake news.
Two teenagers estranged from their parents begin meaningful conversations to bridge emotional distances, explore the past, understand the present, and foster hope for the future.
As a broken, middle-aged horologist undertakes a secret project, his actions begin to unravel his marriage. With both spouses harbouring secrets, will they be able to confront their hidden truths or will their bond be shattered forever.
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