A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
African photographer Craig Foster spent a year developing a relationship with a wild common octopus, following the octopus for most of her life. If you want to let go of the worries of this world and be inspired by the intimate connection possible with the living beings around us, this film is for you. There is so much remarkable beauty and life on Earth.
Directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed
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My Octopus Teacher was good. Interesting how author snorkeled each day to come back from health issues and unemployment.
Good morning Catherine,
I have come across this documentary earlier this year but, due to my son’s insistence to watch either “Grizzly & The Lemmings”, “Flushed Away”, “Kung Fu Panda” or a myriad of other kids movies featured on Netflix (which incidentally help him exercise his English-American language skills through imitating the illustrious characters ‘one liners”), my choice back took a backseat. And being that i had then neglected to bookmark it on my “remind to watch list” in my mind palace, it slipped my mind into the abyss of the obscure forgotten.
What i can suggest on the absolutely fascinating subject of octopi is a magnificent episode from PBS’s Nature series (Season 38|Episode 1) ~ “Octopus: Making Contact”
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Thank you again for the My Octopus Teacher ‘reminder’, wish you well . . .
Thomas
Drats. It says not available, so it is likely not available in Europe. Looks wonderful.
“Drats” ??
Haha, I haven’t heard that term in ages, what a refreshing reminder from my youth ?
Good afternoon Catherine, hope you are well today. My mother use to say “Where there’s a will there’s a way (Θωμά) Thoma ~ where there’s a will there’s a way.” God bless her, i been think a great deal of her lately; her nurturing goodness, wisdom and purity of heart, the personification of womanhood for me.
I am an American ?? living in Athens, Greece so i have to find a way to keep myself feeling like home wherever i am. By that i mean maintaining my culture; the music I like, the shows i watch, my semblance of sanity in a world that is literally headed towards the edge of insanity in high overdrive.
I use a VPN or virtual private network, it’s a device that magically makes you (your IP address) appear in other locations. Express VPN (https://www.expressvpn.com/) is the one i have been specifically using and i most always have it set to a server inside the United States which allows me to watch the programming of PBS (sporadic doses Sir David Attenborough is a must for me) as well as Amazon Prime shows. Any IT worth his weight in salt would be able to recommend an attest for the security of such an application and its uses in everyday life. And it’s perfectly legal, just in case you were wondering.
My father was far from a rich man in any monetary sense but he was brimming and overflowing with wealth in excellence of culture. This morning while house cleaning i was listening to your “SolariReport – 3rd Quarter 2020 Wrap Up – News Trends & Stories Part 1 with Dr. Joseph Farrell”
and around the time code 2:18:44 the conversation shifted to the Metropolitan Opera’s notification closing, the subject of culture and its importance:
Farrell: You could lose a multitude of them, and it may sound like those things are nonessential.
Fitts: They’re very essential, they’re very essential . . .
Farrell: Well, they are nonessential to the hypermaterialist, and those are the things that don’t necessarily contribute to human survival, but they contribute to the value of survival.
My whole point is what both you Catherine and Dr. Farrell maintain to which i wholeheartedly agree, that culture is absolutely essential food for the soul of individual sovereign beings. And these days acquiring and maintaining a certain quality and quantity of culture is essential by any and all means necessary. What’s that great saying you have concerning conspiracies ? If you don’t already have one . . . You better start making one today ? (Forgive the miss quote)
Enjoy the rest of the day,
Thomas