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SPOKEN WORD POETRY

THE PHYTOPLANKTO VIDEO

SHORT FILMS

VIRTUAL REALITY/IMMERSIVE

A PROMISE KEPT

PHOTOGRAPHY & VISUAL ART

FEATURE FILMS

SPOKEN WORD POETRY

REAWAKENING

Zuhura the African Lioness | Tanzania | 2:59

An original poem for the Women Deliver 2023 Conference Soft Launch, in partnership with Create2030.

MEN FOR MENSTRUATION

Poet Teardrops | Kenya | 3:22

A video poem about men supporting women's menstruation. For the UNFPA African Menstrual Hygiene Symposium.

BEFRIEND TO DEFEND

Esmé Hicks | United Kingdom | 3:48

Rich feminist poetry and snappy, colourful visuals combine in this 3.5 minute spoken word short. Based on lived experience and featuring over 20 women, the film tackles the notion of the “correct” way to respond to threats and assault. A collaboration between award-winning director Esmé Hicks and actor-writer Sophie Ablett.

OF IGNORANCE

Desirée Jung | Canada | 1:40

A video poem about missing a time of ignorance.

DANCE VIDEOS

THE DELIGHT OF MOUNTAINS

Jessica Gomula-Kruzic | United States | 5:24

The Delight of Mountains is a dance-for-camera work in which contemporary dance is intertwined with an ancient traditional movement form, in a quest to find universal elements within each.

VIBRANT EYES, TAINTED SOUL

Jessica Michal | United States | 9:12

This film was created amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and followed all state and national safety guidelines upon its completion.

"Vibrant Eyes / Tainted Souls" is a visually experimental dance film created in reflection and in response to the varying array of inner mental/emotional trauma and subsequent collective healing following the events of 2020. This film is inspired by the image of a kaleidoscope, translated from the Ancient Greek words meaning "observation of beautiful forms." Additional research material for this project included Robert Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions, in which certain feelings were attached and employed to inform various movement sequences and to add an expressive filter to the composition of the choreography as a whole through visuals of layering imagery and fluctuating dynamics. This piece stands as a representation of radical self-acceptance during a collective time of hurt and need. The ebb and flow of the human experience is a beautiful form in which we all are observers, endurers, survivors, and victors.

MUSIC VIDEOS

BORN TO RISE

Alien Child | Indonesia | 3:21

An original song produced and performed for the Women Deliver 2023 Conference Soft Launch, in partnership with Create2030.

ONWARD, ARISE WITH LOVE

Karyn Bailey | United States | 4:38

ONWARD, arise with love is a message of hurt, grit, and hope. The music video depicts the struggle in the life of a young black woman and captures racially-fueled harm inflicted on her brother, with whom she shares a close relationship. The video highlights moments in her life that cause her undue pain and are the product of the color of her skin versus her talent, intelligence, grace, and strength. It is a story of resilience and overcoming. It is a story of forward movement against all odds and inspires continued work for racial equality, equity, and justice.

ONE DAY

Or Taicher, Michal Shahaf, Ben Yaffet | Israel | 3:35

Koolulam is a social-musical initiative aimed at empowering communities and strengthening the fabric of society through collaborative creative mass singing experiences. On February 14, 2018, we invited 3,000 people from all walks of life to Haifa to sing in celebration of coexistence in English, Hebrew and Arabic. This project was in partnership with Beit HaGefen, the Haifa Municipality and the Port of Haifa. On World Radio Day that year, UNESCO chose to honour Koolulam's efforts by making our cover their theme song and broadcasting it on over 2000 radio stations.

IMAGINE

Alien Child (Indonesia), Kaila Mullady (USA), Zuhura the African Lioness (Tanzania), Jadan the Poet (Kenya), Ramya Ramana (USA), Sean B (USA) | 4:38

"Imagine" is a new song produced, performed, recorded, taped and edited all during the COVID-19 pandemic by Create2030 youth artists and is an anthem for how young people can reimagine a future in shaping institutions, such as the United Nations.

The song first previewed during the UN's International Youth Day's podcast and the music video premiered during the UN75 Youth Plenary.

DON'T BE AFRAID

Edd Carr | United Kingdom | 3:40

For the Don’t Be Afraid music video, Carr wanted to reflect the anxiety of Tycho’s lyrics - coupled with the desire for fulfilment and escape in a world beset by challenge and crisis. For a while, Carr had been thinking about birds and their relationship to climate and our changing environment - as well as being symbols of peace and freedom.

The resulting video is a fast-paced whirlwind of these themes, told through the narrative of a day in Tycho’s life. As the video progresses, the linear narrative begins to collapse, as Tycho merges with the nonhuman world in his search for release. From melting glaciers to diving sea eagles, and ruthless wildfires to dancing crowds - the video is a snapshot of life in the twenty-first century.

To create the video’s unique aesthetic, Carr printed each frame by hand using the cyanotype process. Cyanotype is a photographic process famously used for architect’s blueprints, but popular with analogue photographers and printmakers around the world. It is of low toxicity, printed using UV, and developed in water - and is therefore considered a sustainable process.

Tycho’s video was printed at 24 frames per second - meaning each second of the video contains 24 individual cyanotype prints. This can be seen in the varied colours and textures of each frame, as well as the frequent scratches and thumbprints. No special effects were involved - it was all printed by hand in my darkroom. In total, there are over 5,000 frames in the video - taking an entire month to print, and 2.5 months to complete in total. This is the first time in history that a video of this type has been printed exclusively in cyanotype, making this a seminal moment for photography.

INTRO

The Ghibertins, Federico Cadenazzi, Fabio R. Rossin | Italy | 4:02

Intro is the opening track of The Ghibertins’ forthcoming concept album “The Life & Death Of John Doe”. John Doe is a term used when the real name of a person is unknown or is being intentionally concealed. As much as we try to leave a legacy, a sign of our passage on earth, no one will remember us in 200 years. We are all passing through this world, we are all forgettable, we are all John Doe.

Nevertheless, the life of each of us is unique and worth telling.

The idea behind The Ghibertins' album is that there is one song for every decade of the protagonist’s life; from his conception to his afterlife. ‘Intro' begins this unique journey that will allow us to see the fall and the redemption of the main character, putting pen to paper all of the band’s hopes and fears. In the video the protagonist gets created and subsequently abandoned by the violent and abusive father, the prelude to his fall in disgrace.

SHAME

Marianne Bernhard | United States | 1:23

A music video by Marianne Bernhard.

DISASSOCIATION

Marianne Bernhard | United States | 3:54

A music video by Marianne Bernhard.

MINI FILMS

THE SHADOW PROJECT

Teresa D'Elia | Canada | 4:44

The Shadow Project has taken place in over 250 cities worldwide. The event commemorates the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan and aims to raise awareness about the ongoing threat from nuclear proliferation. In Hamilton, Ontario, The Shadow Project is hosted each year by artist Bryce Kanbara (You Me Gallery). This film presents footage from the 2019 event and archival material, set to a poem by celebrated writer Ellen S. Jaffe. The piece is performed by poet Nisha Patel (2019 Canadian Individual Slam Champion and former Poet Laureate, City of Edmonton).

I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC

Megan Muthupandiyan | United States | 2:28

A month in the making, this Poetry in the Parks celebration was made wholly possible through a collaboration of strangers who attended the Commitment March on Washington on August 28, 2020, and through the generosity of narrator Terrence Flint.

“I Sing the Body Electric” was published by Walt Whitman in 1855. In this excerpt, the speaker addresses some “Gentlemen” who are surveying the body of a man at sale. And in his meditation on the enslaved man’s body, the speaker reminds them that it is no less wondrous, no less powerful and noble, than theirs. Indeed, as he remarks, in this man is “the start of populous states and rich republics.” In him lies the future of Democracy.

RE-MEMBER

Yo Kohatsu | Japan | 7:16

Late for a meeting, a human opens a conference room door to find it leads to a deep forest. Various creatures – trees, insects and horses – sit in a circle, engaged in a vibrant discussion. The creatures nod to an empty chair and encourage the human to take a seat. It belonged to the human once, after all. But the human does not recall it, nor does he have any intention of joining the meeting.

Indeed the human was part of the meeting once, a long time ago. That was before the human discovered a world outside of the forest, a world inhabited by other humans competing to see who could invent the best tools. Tools used to hurt the creatures, tools used to kill, tools used to build bigger, faster cities. The sudden recovery of memory makes the human want to flee the scene in shame. How could he face the creatures they had so badly hurt?

The forest creatures open up their arms, showing the human how nature has always taken care of itself, recovering and evolving without the help of manmade tools. Suddenly the human re-members that he too is a member of the natural world. He and the creatures are connected. The human takes this recovered knowledge back to the cities where the other humans live, leading to a miracle that reaches all corners of the globe.

THE PHYTOPLANKTO VIDEO

Andrea Karo | United States | 5:00

A painted animated short about phytoplankton and other sea creatures and the unfortunate effects excess carbon has on their existence along with the health of the ocean.

ILLUMINATING THE DARK FLEET

Ryan Ffrench | United States | 4:07

Rampant Illegal Fishing Exposed in North Korean Waters.

Groundbreaking analysis from Global Fishing Watch, published in Science Advances, marks the beginning of a new era in satellite monitoring of global fishing activity and reinforces the importance of greater transparency to fight illegal fishing.

UNDER-GROUND ORE

Teresa Sanz | Spain | 6:06

Today, coal exploitation and trade is the major responsible of carbon emissions that cause climate crisis. In addition to that, it causes health and socio-economic impacts in local communities that live adjacent to the coal facilities, that fight every day for a healthy environment. In Chile, there are still 28 thermal power stations across the country. Most of them are located in, what is called, sacrifice zones. A sacrifice zone corresponds to a geographic zone—typically populated by low-income settlements—that was environmentally devastated due to industrial development. Such devastation has direct implications in the full exercise of people's fundamental rights: rights to life, health, education, work, food, housing, etc.. In Chile there are still 5 sacrifice zones.

“Under-ground ore” is a scenic action that address the socio-environmental devastation of one of the largest Sacrifice Zones in Chile: Quintero-Puchuncaví in Valparaiso Region. This short film is the result of a collective creation process developed in an art-action laboratory during February 2021, where local women and non-binary identities participated. This action was an unique opportunity to generate a place of encounter between neighbors. "Under-ground ore" is an expression of emotions and experiences of people living in such a polluted environment. It is a collective cry to recover the faith, power and voice lost during the long struggle defending the environment.

This laboratory and video was directed by Teresa Sanz, and is part of her research project on creative expressions and socio-environmental conflicts. In this chance, she collaborated with the theatre Collective “Teatro en movimiento Callejerx”.

SHORT FILMS

THE MAN OF THE TREES

Andrea Trivero | Italy | 18:55

Daniel Balima is a senior horticulturist from Tenkodogo, a small Sub-Saharan African town in Burkina Faso, where he lives with his large family and has worked since he was born 67 years ago.

Daniel as a child falls ill with polio and, although growing without the use of his legs, he is able to follow his father in the family nursery, walking on his hands.

He works immediately with great passion and talent so much that his disability, which for many in Africa means a marked destiny, is for Daniel an opportunity: "I could take two paths: begging or taking my life in hand and devoting myself to work with dignity ". So every day he goes to the garden to work, despite the various difficulties he faces, both those related to his physical condition, and those related to the territory and he is happy, because he can keep the family and pay their studies to children and grandchildren.

Daniel has chosen and won this great challenge and, every day, he sows and cultivates with great effort and gratitude many vegetables and plants.

Often those who have no food go to the garden, because they know that even without money can open that gate, look into the eyes this generous man, who with a few gestures and a few kind words will make him collect and bring home what is necessary to feed.

In over fifty years of activity he has given life to more than a million trees and this is what is most important for Daniel because, as he tells us, his country, because of the drought, needs many trees and does not stop, on the contrary, he dreams of planting another million.

OTONASHI

Martin Gerigk | Germany | 10:00

"Painted in silence, a sparrow’s dream invokes timeless harmonies. In the heart of the universal geometry, the seed of calm is formed."

Otonashi is a philosophical voyage through inner and outer experiences of the human existence - an audiovisual meditation of futuristic transmutations about the Japanese Hannya Shingyō.

OCCUPATION, INC

Laura Dauden, Sebastián Ruiz-Cabrera | Brazil | 39:49

Occupation Inc. is the portrait of a betrayal: with a meticulous and original approach, the documentary exposes the names and surnames of the Spanish businessmen and politicians involved in the economic exploitation of Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa and one of the most violent, militarized, and censored territories in the world. The testimonies collected here also reveal the chain of silences and lies that begins in the European centers of power and ends in the Moroccan-occupied cities, where Saharawi men and women resist the plundering and denial of their rights.

AIN'T YOUR MAMA'S HEAT WAVE

Elijah Karriem | United States | 46:51

“Anger and humor are like the left and right arm.They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.” -- James H. Cone

Ain’t Your Mama’s Heat Wave is a stand up comedy special from the frontlines of the climate crisis. It’s filmed in the St. Paul’s district of Norfolk, VA, a Black public housing community that is being redeveloped because of climate flooding, sea level rise, and a legacy of racist urban policies. The city of Norfolk, which is below sea level and sinking, is grappling with the climate crisis and racial injustice.

Four Black millennial stand-up comedians, hailing from Virginia Beach, Atlanta, Chicago, and Ohio, take the stage to “make the climate crisis funny” in front of a St. Paul’s audience who are at risk for a Hurricane Katrina-like disaster and who are currently being displaced from their homes. Things are not so funny when it’s clear that climate threats can mean life or death. But, in the Black American tradition of struggle, resilience, and triumph in the face of existential threat, the joy of comedy, music, and art informs and empowers.

The comedy of this show helps everyone see that the climate crisis is much more than a crisis; it’s an opportunity for us to right wrongs and truly make life on this planet better for everyone. The joy of comedy, laughter, and finding the humor in existential threat, makes the project a new genre of climate storytelling. We laugh so we don’t cry. We can come together because we can laugh together.

Ain’t Your Mama’s Heat Wave is a production of Hip Hop Caucus’ Think 100% FILMS.

FROM DURBIN UNTIL TOMORROW

Dylan Mohan Gray | South Africa | 39:58

Logline:

Five frontline health advocates from different parts of the world work through victories and defeats forging a path toward a meaningful, universal human right to health.

Synopsis:

With the inequities of global health more evident and stark today than at any point in history, FROM DURBAN TO TOMORROW recalls the mass protests led by people living with HIV in Durban, South Africa, which radically transformed the global landscape for human rights in health some two decades ago. These events in the year 2000 gave rise to a series of major advances in public health for marginalised people the world over, yet recent years have seen many of these hard-won gains severely eroded, putting tens of millions of lives at risk and compounding the threat posed by a deadly global pandemic. In FROM DURBAN TO TOMORROW, the stories of five frontline health advocates from different parts of the world underscore this rapidly worsening crisis and herald the impending battle for a meaningful, universal human right to health.

FREE MOTHERHOOD

Miguel Angel Herrera | Brazil | 26:00

The documentary "Free Motherhood" tells the stories of motherhood in and out of prison through the eyes of five women who had their lives marked by the selectivity of the criminal justice system in Brazil. Today, 63% of imprisoned women in the country are black, and only 34% of them have completed elementary school. The vast majority, 64%, answer for trafficking, a crime without victims and without violence. At the other end of the punishment, we have children who need their mothers for their full development, especially in early childhood. The film shows that ensuring the coexistence between mothers and children is always the best decision.

Created by IDDD, the Mães Livres project allowed members of the Institute to provide legal assistance to mothers and pregnant women imprisoned in the Pirajuí Women's Penitentiary, between 2017 and 2018. The goal: enforce the legal framework for early childhood care and provoke the judiciary to look at the perverse effects of female incarceration. Thus also arises the documentary, showing how mothers who have gone through or are still in prison deal with some of its consequences.

EMILY & BEATRIX

Odette Laramee | Canada | 20:58

Imagine the animals are trying to tell you something, but you do not notice. This is the quandary of famous artists, Emily Carr and Beatrix Potter.

When Beatrix arrives at Emily's home in search of Peter Rabbit, she has no idea what kind of adventure she's embarked upon. But, after being accused by Emily of stealing her paint brushes, she knows that this is a case for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

As Woo the Monkey reveals the mystery, even the logger who is being paid by D. Trump encounters his 'good side'.

In celebration of their rekindled friendship and the animals' success, Emily and Beatrix host a wondrous tea party - for the small and the 12-foot tall.

‘Emily and Beatrix’ is an original co-creation developed by Lifetime Networks 'Theatre Troupe' with the support of Delusional Studios. We embarked on the journey of filmmaking as a means of continuing to create through the COVID19 pandemic.

The film evolved organically at the home where Canadian artist, Emily Carr, once lived.

We are a team of neuro-diverse and neuro-typical story/script writers, actors, song writers, singers, dancers, musicians, visual artists, puppeteers, technicians, and ...

This film is our call to work together and save our remaining forests.

THE CARBON CHRONICLES

Tom Corby, Gavin Baily, Jonathan Mackenzie | United Kingdom | 3:32

The Carbon Chronicles: Who owns the air?

The Carbon Chronicles is an experimental animated visualisation of the build-up of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses has radically altered the Earth’s atmosphere. It is a collaboration between artists from the Manifest Data Lab and scientists from the British Antarctic Survey. The animation maps from the industrial revolution to the present day the regions contributing most to the climate crisis, which can be traced through the stalagmite growths representing CO2 emissions growing out from the different countries. Beginning with the UK in the 1750s, emissions from coal start enveloping the planet, other regions soon follow. By the late 1800s through to the current period, growing industrial and extraction activity in the Global North is responsible for 92% of CO2 with 8% coming from the Global South. The spread of CO2 described in the animation mirrors the wider historic processes of power distribution visited on poorer countries and shows that the atmosphere is as contested a space as the territories beneath it. The work describes a living breathing planet, under the pressure of human produced exhalations of CO2. It attributes responsibility in ways that can inform the need for equitable solutions to the climate crisis that are mindful of the historic consequences of carbon exploitation and its impacts.

The Carbon Chronicles informs the need for equitable solutions to the climate crisis that are mindful of the historic consequences of carbon exploitation to ask: Who Owns the Air?

VIRTUAL REALITY/IMMERSIVE

A PROMISE KEPT

Ken Winikur | United States | 14:24

In 1944, during the Second World War, thirteen year old Fritzie Fritzshall, her mother, and her two younger brothers were arrested at gunpoint and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Separated from her mother and brothers during selection, never to see them again, Fritzie survived for months inside one of the Nazi’s most notorious camps. Working as a slave laborer in a nearby factory, Fritzie was imprisoned with 599 other women. Each night the women would share with Fritzie a precious crumb of their bread in the hope that the youngest among them might survive to tell the world what had happened to them. In turn, Fritzie promised that if she survived, she would tell their story.

Filmed on location in Poland and Ukraine, A Promise Kept, reveals an unprecedented advance in storytelling and cutting edge VR technology. Through immersive cinematography, animation, photogrammetry and 360 sound, stand with Fritzie as she journeys back to the grounds of her grandparent’s home, to the arrival ramp, crematorium, barracks and latrines of Auschwitz-Birkenau. From her darkest memories, to the sparks of humanity that allowed her and others to survive, it is a story that will captivate, move, and inspire you, ensuring Fritizie’s promise is kept for generations to come.

A Promise Kept was created by world-renowned human rights center, Illinois Holocaust Museum; award-winning digital entertainment company 30 Ninjas, award-winning documentary filmmakers Ken Winikur of Winikur Productions and Ariel Efron; executive produced by Susan Abrams, CEO and Kelley Szany, VP, Education & Exhibitions of Illinois Holocaust Museum, co-produced by Illinois Holocaust Museum, Gallagher & Associates, and eyelash.ai. It features an original soundtrack by Emmy Award-winning studio Silver Sound.

DON'T FORGET ME

Ken Winikur | United States | 12:42

“The Auschwitz Album” is the only known surviving photographic evidence recording the arrival, selection and imprisonment of Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In it are pictures of George Brent and his father.

In early summer 1944, at the height of the frenzied deportation of Hungarian Jewry, fourteen-year-old George Brent, his parents, and ten-year-old brother arrived at the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Immediately separated, George never saw his mother and brother again. The last words his father spoke to him at Auschwitz were, “Don’t forget me.”

Eventually deported to Mauthausen and Ebensee concentration camps, George performed brutal and deadly work under unimaginable conditions.

Filmed on location in Austria, Poland and Ukraine, on’t Forget Me, utilizes cutting edge VR technology. Through immersive cinematography, animation, photogrammetry and 360 sound, viewers stand with George as he takes them back to his hometown, to the arrival ramp, crematorium, and barracks of Auschwitz, the slave quarry of Mauthausen, and the tunnels of Ebensee concentration camp. From his darkest memories to the sparks of humanity that allowed him and others to survive, it is a story that will bring you on a compelling journey across multiple countries and camps, revealing the intensely human aspects of survival in the face of Nazi tyranny, ensuring you don’t forget George or his story.

Don’t Forget Me was created by world-renowned human rights center, Illinois Holocaust Museum; award-winning digital entertainment company 30 Ninjas; award-winning documentary filmmakers Ken Winikur of Winikur Productions and Ariel Efron; executive produced by Susan Abrams, CEO and Kelley Szany, VP, Education & Exhibitions of Illinois Holocaust Museum, and co-produced by Illinois Holocaust Museum, Gallagher & Associates, and eyelash.ai. It features an original soundtrack by Emmy Award-winning studio Silver Sound.

PHOTOGRAPHY & VISUAL ART

THE FRAGILITY OF REALITY

Jonathan Berkh, Patryk Senwicki, Laura Ettel, Tahnee Nordegg |

Austria | 6:35

The three chapters in this film nonverbally describe the artist Jonathan Berkh and his work "The fragility of reality" created for Barcelona Contemporary 2021

FROZEN CHOICES

Lukas Van Loon | German

Lukas Van LThis shot shows a frozen lake in Bavaria - Germany called "Eibsee". It was taken at a 120m height with the camera tilted down at a 90° angle. The pattern of the frozen ice is probably the result of trapped air that was slowly released by submerged plants at the bottom of the lake. Winds might have also played a role in forming the pattern on the ice surface. It is clear that nature itself - and not no human intervention - created this beautiful abstract pattern. If one does not know that this picture was taken at a height of 120m, one might mistake the picture for a macro shot showing the inside of a cell or something similar. oon

FEATURE FILMS

MENDING WALLS

Pam Hervey, Todd Hervey | United States | 56:46

Artist Hamilton Glass challenges 30 artists from different cultural backgrounds to collaborate on 16 murals in Richmond, VA about race, status and experiences. In real-time footage and testimonial, the film shows how the artists got to know each other through difficult conversations, how working together ultimately opened their eyes and their hearts to the differences between all of us, and how these murals became a symbol of hope for the future for a community in pain.

OSHIKA - WINDS OF CHANGE

Kim Myoungyoon | Korea, Republic of | 01:28:00

It has been 10 years since the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown. Nowadays, people talk about SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). However, there is a place where self-sufficiency has long been an aim of the people who live there. This is the village of Oshika in mountainous Nagano prefecture, which, like many other rural areas in Japan, is losing its population at a fast rate. In the remote Kamasawa district there is a centuries-old community where the majority of the population now consists of incomers from the city. The Korean director Myoungyoon Kim, who came to Japan as an international student, happened to meet one of them in Tokyo.

Kim's consequent visit to Oshika became the first of many. Over several years he filmed life in the village as experienced by the people who live there. For him personally this was a rich experience, accompanied by a feeling that here something difficult to articulate was happening. To express this he uses the Korean palam, a word that means both "wind" and "hope." This wind blows gently through the village. It’s a metaphor for the abundance of life close to nature, where life, like nature itself, is never static.

Oshika, especially Kamasawa, used to be a quiet place. However, since November 2016, the village's soundscape has been radically altered due to the construction of the "maglev" Linear Shinkansen line. This "dream train," which will eventually run between Tokyo and Osaka, involves the digging of long tunnels under the Japan Southern Alps.

In addition to the environmental degradation that the Linear has brought to Oshika, strains have been put on the relationship between the villagers, many of whom view the project from different perspectives.

Kim's film zooms in on these topics. It shows how the villagers are facing the day-to-day challenges of Linear construction and the changes that it is bringing to their lives.

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