Films for a More Sane Civilization
Featured photo | Bess Hamiti
Katie Teague, has won awards and accolades for her documentary Money & Life and Sundance-granted project 99% The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film. With a Masters degree in Depth Psychology, she transitioned her focus from the counseling room to the edit room and the art of visual storytelling. True to her heart’s calling and what she calls ‘culture repair’, her films focus on healing and transformation – to bring forth a more loving, regenerative world that works for all.
A visual storyteller attuned to the unique complexities of the liminal space we live in, Katie’s work shines in collaboration with cutting-edge thinkers, philosophers, artists and writers exploring what it means to be human “in a time between worlds.” Under her channel In the Making, Katie independently crafts thoughtful, extraordinary short films derived from her extensive, intimate interviews.
In our speed-addicted, metric-oriented, attention-starved world I feel I can best serve the healing of the whole (and the irruption of a new structure in consciousness) in deploying my gifts and intuitions to this epochal shift we are living through. Through the creative blending of video, time-lapse photography, interviewing, script writing and deep listening I’ve developed a keen capacity to synthesize and transmit bits into a beautiful tapestry of multimedia transmission. – Katie
Equipment Used:
Sony A7Siii
Atomos Ninja V
Sony A7Rii
Mavic 3 Pro
THE PLANETARY IMAGINARY: COMING BACK HOME TO THE LIVING EARTH
with Jeremy Johnson
Jeremy is an author (Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness; Fragments of an Integral Future), publisher at Integral Imprint, managing editor of Integral Leadership Review, podcaster (Mutations) and integral philosopher. Jeremy has written as a contributing editor for Reality Sandwich magazine, OMNI, Disinformation, Evolve Magazine, and Kosmos Journal. His academic research, writing, and publishing advocates new forays into integrative thinking and praxis—aligning the scholastic, poetic, and spiritual—as existentially crucial work for pathfinding in a time of planetary crisis.
THE GREAT TURNING with Joanna Macy
Dr. Joanna Macy is an activist, ecologist, author, and one of the pioneers of engaged Buddhism. Many thousands of people around the world have participated in Joanna’s workshops and trainings in the Work That Reconnects, and have been forever changed by this ground-breaking group work. A respected voice in the movements for peace, justice, and ecology, Joanna has devoted her life to five decades of activism. Joanna’s online work includes the article World as Lover, World as Self; Bestiary (an ode to wildlife); Nuclear Guardianship, her testimony at the World Uranium Hearings in Salzburg, 1992; and The Vegan Vision, on the ethics of a vegan diet. Her other books include Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems, World as Lover, World as Self and Rilke’s Book of Hours. She is most renowned for her book Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World and the Great Turning Initiative which she discusses here in this short film.
WHAT IS WISDOM? with Bonnita Roy
Bonnitta Roy’s teachings highlight the ’embodied, affective and perceptual aspects of the core self, and the non-egoic potentials from which subtle sensing, intuition and insight emerge.’ Author of the popular Medium publication Our Future at Work, she is also an associate editor of Integral Review where you can find her articles on process approaches to consciousness, perception, and metaphysics.
THE WICKED MUSH OF THE IN-BETWEEN
with Bonnita Roy
Bonnita Roy is also a pioneer in post-formal education and founder of Alderlore Insight Center and the POP-UP School, where she teaches insight practices for individuals who are developing meta-cognitive skills – thinking about thinking – and hosts collective insight retreats for groups interested in breaking away from typical limiting patterns of thought.
I love Katie’s films! Every one of them (I’ve been tracking her for several years now) has a penetrative heart-quality that makes me FEEL the wisdom of whoever she is interviewing. And not just that, with her carefully selected accompanying images, there is a sense that the whole of Earth is an intimately resonant part of the conversation as well, preventing the films from being human-oriented and ego-centric!