Recitation of the article by Vaclav Havel printed in Esquire Magazine in 1994.
Havel wrote Power of the Powerless, lead the Prague Spring, was the first post Soviet president of Czechoslovakia and was - first and foremost, a play write.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KZHwQbyETg
Clip from The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin
Bower Birds short doc: https://youtu.be/E1zmfTr2d4c
Ode To Charlie Chaplin
Now manners propose
That prose be raved
Or depraved.
And judgements are quick
But the mind too fast to rest
Upon the thing before stating so.
Hearing each thing new nothing new
But all new it’s deafening;
Like mocking birds.
Only when paused to see their wings
And beaks are their familiar natures reminded.
Nature is nature and all is all
And nothing is newly new,
But imagination.
It’s in the quiet repose that
Bower birds build.
Creation is not for mimics
But a tool of mimics too.
Followers only follow,
Agreements make no exchange.
In the mocking or the mimicry
We see a decry of sophistry;
The most honest of all illusions
Only when done with heart.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ_U5uRpCMA
Here is a second, slightly longer teaser before the final video is released. Thank you to all our supporters! And thank you to the original creators from Switzerland who inspired this project.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpt3tF2XzYk
Growing up I would go back and forth to see family in Soviet Romania. My Hungarian mom moved there with her family during WW2. Her father died there in a gulag when she was a teenager.
This is a story from long after that when I’m not a teen yet and playing (or want to) with my friends.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPhbguPwA1A