I saw the _No Other Land_ movie twice over the weekend: never did that before: just wanted to get people involved, as many as possible. And it was good I noticed more, or remembered more of it with two viewings. Harun's mother with her weather-worn face surrounded by a head-wrapping, and her thick work-wise hands had me thinking women I saw in #SeiichiMotohashi's work: #AlexeiAndTheSpring. The army bulldozers in Palestine destroyed the waterlines of the peasants while they spoke of access to water as a human right..
#NoOtherLand #PeasantSurvivors

> .. village in.. Belarus.. contaminated by.. Chernobyl, #AlexeiAndTheSpring..[shows].. commitment of.. elderly people..[1] young man... a sacred spring. This crystal-clear stream escaped contamination and continues to support the life of the villagers, who use it for drinking water, for laundry, and as a site for religious rites. Japanese.. filmmaker #MotohashiSeiichi.. made a previous work about #Chernobyl.. finds a..lesson in.. faith amidst an ecological disaster.
https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/alexei-and-the-spring-2002-12

#AlexeiInBelarus #MotoHashiSeiIchi #SakamotoRyuichi #RyuIchiSakamoto #Chernobyl's #PollutedLand in film: #AlexeiAndTheSpring
https://variety.com/2003/film/reviews/alexei-and-the-spring-1200541297/#!