20, 21, 22, 23

film 20: matchmaking mayor


a strange doco on a slovak mayor who decided to take matters into his own hands and get the single people of his village together. a gathering of the said singles was organised and the outcome... well, just a little bit sad really.

film 21: page one: inside the new york times


another documentary and this time it was the inside workings of the new york times newspaper, some of the major players in the news room and by chance caught the period of wikileaks.

a break between films so i headed up to the top end of bourke to sit on the stairs of parliament and get some air and the little remaining sunshine.





film 22: detroit wild city


wasn't sure what was coming with this one, first i thought it might be about music but it was about a modern day dying city and the people living within. sad and a little disturbing.

film 23: project nim


in the early 70s, a chimp is taken from it's mother and given to a human mother who breast feeds and rears it for the first year or so of it's life as a human. nim was part of a university study trying to understand communication and linguistics, and was taught sign language. nim did not meet another chimpanzee until the project was abandoned and he returned to the research lab he initially came from before being sold to an animal testing laboratory. his story doesn't end there.