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07/18/2021

JULIEN BISMUTH, 07.17.21:

I shot this footage in 2019, in the city of Corumba in Matto Grosso do Sul.

In recent weeks, protests have increased against Bolsonaro and his government in response to charges of corrupion related to the Covid-vaccine. Meanwhile, Bolsonaro and his government are aggressively moving to legally eradicate the land rights of indigenous populations, threatening future and existing demarcations of indigenous territories, as documented by APIB on their website:

https://apiboficial.org/noticias/?lang=en

This is a critical time for the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous populations of Brazil. The struggle we face as a planet is between those who want to consume and destroy it, and those who want to preserve and sustain it for future generations. In the words of the indigenous leader, Sônia Guajajara:

"Our lives are inextricable from the natural world. The creatures of the rainforest protect us, and in turn we protect them. We are the only buffers protecting our thinning forests. Our battle is not just for the future. It’s for the present."

Please donate to APIB and ISA using the links at the bottom of this page.

04/29/2021

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Terra Indigena Pirahã, 2017

04/15/2021

Join us Thursday, April 15 at 4pm PST / 7pm EST for a Zoom webinar with Julien Bismuth & Corazon del Sol discussing their project Sanfona/Symphony, co-presented by Pluto Projects and The Box.

Sanfona/Symphony is a cultural-philanthropic initiative intended to be an emergent body of cultural dialogue, financial support, and political galvanization designed to grow in relevance over time with international participation. The fundraising initiative supports two organizations – ISA (Instituto Socioambiental) and APIB (The Brazil's Indigenous People Articulation) – working to assist indigenous communities in Brazil.

Guided by artists Julien Bismuth and Corazon del Sol, who both previously and independently produced bodies of video work in Brazil examining the intimate polarities of human rights and state power (Brazil’s Indigenous tribes and Brazil’s evangelical churches respectively), the project is facilitated through the architecture of an ever-growing infinite-scroll webpage recording weekly participation by cultural contributors.

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04/03/2021

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Israel, Israel que bonito es Israel,
Israel, Israel que bonito es Israel,
Israel , Israel, en tus tierras bailaré.
Israel, Israel que bonito es Israel,

Isreal, Isreal how beautiful is Isreal
Isreal, Isreal how beautiful is Isreal
Isreal, Isreal, on your lands I will dance
Isreal, Isreal how beautiful is Isreal

Isreal, Isreal, Que Bonita Isreal sung by Las Superestrellas La Pequeña Wendy, Delfín hasta el Fin and La Tigresa del Orienteeee

With a sales video for Multi Mission Surveillance Radar for Border Controll by IAI Israeli defense company.

04/01/2021

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"We must accept the idea that negation does not signify nothingness; and that when the mirror does not reflect our own likeness, this does not prove there is nothing there to see."

Pierre Clastres

04/01/2021

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Israel, Israel que bonito es Israel,
Israel, Israel que bonito es Israel,
Israel , Israel, en tus tierras bailaré.
Israel, Israel que bonito es Israel,

Isreal, Isreal how beautiful is Isreal
Isreal, Isreal how beautiful is Isreal
Isreal, Isreal, on your lands I will dance
Isreal, Isreal how beautiful is Isreal

Isreal, Isreal, Que Bonita Isreal sung by Las Superestrellas La Pequeña Wendy, Delfín hasta el Fin and La Tigresa del Orienteeee

With a sales video for Multi Mission Surveillance Radar for Border Controll by IAI Israeli defense company.

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01/23/2021

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“Our actions require an object outside of themselves. It is not because we need to sustain the illusion of some impossible immortality: it is because it is implicit in our moral being and it cannot be lost, even partially, without that moral being losing its reason for existence. There is no need to demonstrate that in such a state of collapse the slightest cause for depression can easily give rise to desperate acts. When life is not worth living, everything becomes a pretext for ridding ourselves of it.”
Emile Durkheim

—-List of scenes....
Jair Bolsonaro getting baptized in Isreal in the river Jordan in 2018 by an evangelical preacher in a successful bid to align himself with the evangelical for his presidency. 75% of evangelicals voted for him.

Members of the Universal Church the Kingdom of God Rio running the Ark of the Covenant around the periphery of church.

Scenes of the Ark being carried for the Inauguration of Solomon’s Temple in São Paolo a 10,000 seat replica of the biblical temple built in Jerusalem in the eleventh century BC. Built by Edir Macedo founder of the Universal Church

Evangelical CGI infomercial on the power of the Ark of the Covenant

More evangelical infomercials on the apocalypse and the hell that will reign down on all non Christians

Unveiling of The Great White Throne that signals the final judgment before being thrown into the lake of burning sulfur

Scene of final rapture where all Christians float up to meet Jesus

12/19/2020

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JULIEN BISMUTH, 12.19.20:

I filmed this footage last year in the Pantanal wetlands of Brazil. I like how the branch bends as they step out of the frame, bowing to fit the sudden slope of their descent. I like how their presence pierces and splinters the surrounding vegetation, then drops back into it at the end of the shot. But the word “like” is inadequate. The feeling I remember having when I filmed this scene was one of wonder.

In his lecture on ethics, Wittgenstein says that if he had to name an anchor point for his ethics, an instance wherein he “always felt pleasure,” it would be the following type of experience:

I believe the best way of describing it is to say that when I have it, I wonder at the existence of the world. And I am then inclined to use such phrases as 'how extraordinary that anything should exist' or ‘how extraordinary that the world should exist.’

To wonder is not simply to be in awe. It is also to question or to be interrogated by something. And to question is to think, inasmuch as to answer definitively is always to repeat what has already been established, what has already been said. The voice behind me on the screen behind me just asked “How does language perform?” Which leads me to a second quote from the same essay by Wittgenstein:

My whole tendency and, I believe, the tendency of all men who ever tried to write or
talk Ethics or Religion was to run against the boundaries of language. This running against the walls of our cage is perfectly, absolutely hopeless. Ethics so far as it springs from the desire to say something about the ultimate meaning of life, the absolute good, the absolute valuable, can be no science. What it says does not add to our knowledge in any sense. But it is a document of a tendency in the human mind which I personally cannot help respecting deeply and I would not for my life ridicule it.

Certain truths resonate more deeply when they run against the walls of their own gestation.

12/11/2020

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CORAZON DEL SOL, 12.03.20:

“To be alive is to strive for existence. That’s why he (Spinoza) calls also the Conatus, The power of existing and he has this very beautiful definition...Each thing, including the humans but also animals and every living being, each thing as far as it can by it’s own power strives to persevere in it being. Another quote..The striving by which each thing strives to persevere in its being is nothing but the actual essence of the thing” so being, being alive is being a force which wants to affirm itself, persevere in its being”
From Catherine Malabou: From Sorrow to Indifference

12/03/2020

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JULIEN BISMUTH, 12.03.20:

QUE NOME DAR À ESPERANÇA?

Mas se através de tudo corre a esperança, então a coisa é atingida. No entanto, a esperança não é para amanha. A esperança é este instante. Precisa-se dar outro nome a certo tipe de esperança porque esta palavra significa sobretudo espera. E a esperança é já. Deve haver uma palavra que significa o que quero dizer.

WHAT NAME SHOULD WE GIVE TO HOPE?

But if hope courses through everything, then the thing is done. However, hope is not for tomorrow. Hope is this very instant. We need to give another name to a certain type of hope (esperança) because this word above all means waiting (esperar). And hope is now. There should be a word that means what I want to say.

11/28/2020

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CORAZON DEL SOL, 11.27.20:

Elza Soares - Deus Há De Ser - God Has To Be

And all the feminine sciences
The poetry, the rhymes
They want to be held in your madonna lap
The poetry, rhymes
They want to be held in your madonna lap

Taking a ride in your divine warmth
Transforms any man in to a boy
To be a raw stone in this necklace of yours
Softens the hardness of facts

God is Mother
And all the feminine sciences
The poetry, the rhymes
They want to be held in your madonna lap
The poetry, rhymes
They want to be held in your madonna lap

Taking a ride in your divine warmth
Transforms any man in to a boy
To be a raw stone in this necklace of yours
Softens the hardness of facts

God is a Woman
God has to be
God has to understand
God has to want that
Everything to goes for the better
If a Woman, God has to be

God has to be female
God has to be elegant
God has to be beautiful
God has to be

God has to be female
God has to be elegant
God has to be beautiful
God has to be

God has to be
God has to be
God has to be

God is Mother

Elza Soares - Deus Há De Ser

Deus é mãe
E todas as ciências femininas
A poesia, as rimas
Querem o seu colo de madona
A poesia, as rimas
Querem o seu colo de madona

Pegar carona nesse seu calor divino
Transforma qualquer homem em menino
Ser pedra bruta nesse seu colar de braços
Amacia a dureza dos fatos

Deus é mãe
E todas as ciências femininas
A poesia, as rimas
Querem o seu colo de madona
A poesia, as rimas
Querem o seu colo de madona

Pegar carona nesse seu calor divino
Transforma qualquer homem em menino
Ser pedra bruta nesse seu colar de braços
Amacia a dureza dos fatos

Deus é mulher
Deus há de ser
Deus há de entender
Deus há de querer
Que tudo vá para melhor
Se for mulher, Deus há de ser

Deus há de ser fêmea
Deus há de ser fina
Deus há de ser linda
Deus há de ser

Deus há de ser fêmea
Deus há de ser fêmea
Deus há de ser fina
Deus há de ser fina
Deus há de ser linda
Deus há de ser linda
Deus há de ser
Deus há de ser

Deus há de ser
Deus há de ser
Deus há de ser

Deus é mãe

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