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Politics of Life

Dying is “certainly the most important time of my life.”

storiesCaren MartineauJanuary 20, 2020photography, video, film, first-person, on dying, message, meaning, love, Philip Gould, Phillip Gould, dying

Under Ice

A free-diver learns to trust self when life is at stake.

storiesCaren MartineauJuly 11, 2018ice, video, film, stories, first-person, Johanna, underwater, healing

A Sacred Death

Death is rarely a romantic notion, except, of course, in the hands of one of literature’s greats.

cultureCaren MartineauJune 14, 2018art, style, flowers, emile zola, zola, rebecca louise law, Rebecca Louise Law, Zola, film, albine, Albine, Death of Albine, death of albine, suffocated by flowers, suffocation, Emile Zola

Like a Butterfly

A filmmaker learns the butterflies had a different story to tell.

film, cultureCaren MartineauJune 12, 2018film, grief, bereavement, monarch, butterfly, butterflies, Mexico, stories

Life Insurance

When money is no longer the driver, you have complete choice.

storiesCaren MartineauJune 11, 2018video, film, first-person, stories, meaning

Walking Home

The cold, blue light of winter seems to cast every moment into a shadow of memory.

cultureCaren MartineauJune 6, 2018poetry, video, r.a. villenueva, reliquaria, film, animation

Loving Sadness

Listening to the little voices inside your head.

cultureCaren MartineauMay 29, 2018film, Inside Out, Pete Docter, Pixar, animation, psychology, emotions, loss

Making Sense

A granddaughter makes visual poetry out of “the things no one else sees.”

art, artists, cultureCaren MartineauMay 23, 2018video, film, Gemma Green-Hope, Gan-Gan, grandmother, tribute, memories, legacy

A Message for You

The years that I could have lived, I will give those to your daughter.”

storiesCaren MartineauMay 8, 2018film, auschwitz, documentary, video, stories, first-person, cooincidence, fate, meaning