A cine-poem, based a poem by Alicia Ostriker, tackles the most pressing issue of our time – climate change.
The primordial Greek goddess, Gaia, the ancestral mother of all life and the personification of earth, is lamenting our ingratitude and the destruction of the planet.
Ingratitude
after all I have done for them
ingratitude
is the term that springs to mind
yet I continue to generate
abundance which they continue to waste
they expect me to go on giving forever
they don’t believe anything I say
with my
wet green
windy
hot mouth
Poet: Alicia Ostriker
Director, Editor: Tova Beck-Friedman
Narrator: Duvall O’steen
Music: Alaupas (freesound.org)
Archival footage: NASA, archive.org
Screenings:
International Migration & Environmental Film Festival, 2021, Toronto
Green World Rising: Eco-Poetry , Poets House, New York City,2019
Dumbo Film festival, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
W:OW Project, Museo La Neomudéjar, Madrid, Spain, 2018.
Motion Pictures Film Festival, Nigeria, & Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The Green Screen Film Festival in Trinidad and Tobago, 2018
FIIN | Festival Internacional de Imagem de Natureza, 2018, Portugal
Newlyn International Film Festival 2019, UK
Festival Internacional De Videoarte De Camaguey 2019, Cuba
Tulum World Environment Film Festival, 2019, Mexico
NewMediaFest 2020 – WOWretro – retrospective 2000-2020, Ethiopia
