........................ mira burt-wintonick

Your guess: is it sex or chocolate?

“Floral notes, intense flavour and an exceptionally long finish.”

grrow.

apparently, a short video that allie and I made was on TV this past Monday and if you happened to be watching the Montreal version of Canada Now, you may have seen it . of course as the filmmakers we only found out after the fact, but what else can one expect from the media relic that is television.

obviously, the internet is much more suited for such video distribution anyhow seeing as how at every officially projected screening of the fated ‘Bitch, Rage & Roar’ something has been not quite right (i.e. no sound, sound but no sync, etc). we’ll probably upload some sort of version at some point if only to share it with the subjects of the film, the Montreal Raging Grannies, who, as it turns out, are quite the bunch of techno saavy wizards and would no doubt be among the first proponents of up and coming blogumentaries.

with less than two weeks left, we’ve made it just about as west as our trip will take us. we’re staying at our friend Martin’s place (certainly significant in his own right in the documentary world as the producer of Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus).

since recreating our version of leni’s triumph of the will in Nurnberg last week, we’ve met up with ron holloway in berlin, visited an island of cyclists in holland, got swept up in the contagious excitement of honor hager about radio astronomy and merging generations of media in newcastle-on-the-tyne and discussed the power of and necessity for video activism with franny armstrong, of McLibel fame, here in london.

[a funnily enough side mention: german and dutch were much easier to understand than plain old english as it was spoken in northern UK.}

in any case, somewhere amidst all those fun people and places we visited the Dachau concentration camp memorial site. Dachau was sort of the model for all the subsequent camps (it oppened in 1933 for crying out loud). not officially an extermination camp, but chilling and thought provoking all the same, as you’d imagine.

to see a variation of these updates in photo format carry on. otherwise, cheerio.

also, i keep forgetting, did i mention that i’m running away to iceland?

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