Documentary About Venice Italy

[Carmelina Olden]

Thats the revelation in the new documentary about Goldin, All The Beauty and The Bloodshed, out now in limited release. It won the Gold Lion for best film this year at the Venice International Film Festival.

After reading about the Sacklers' role pushing Oxycontin sales in a groundbreaking article in The New Yorker, Goldin decided to challenge their carefully curated public image as enlightened philanthropists.

"All the museums and institutions need to stop taking money from these corrupt evil bastards," Goldin says in the documentary, as she helps organize one of the opioid protests that rocked the art world over the last five years.

In bestselling books such as Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, the book and award-winning television series Dopesick, and this new documentary, the Sacklers have faced a kind of public shaming.

A new Italian documentary tells the extraordinary tale of a fourteenth-century galley resting at the bottom of Venice lagoon. The unique archaeological discovery was made in 2001 at the sunken island of San Marco Boccalama, which was home to a monastery in Medieval times.

Monks sank the galley in the early 1300s along with a Venetian transport vessel in the hope that this would fortify the island's banks and stop its gradual slide into the lagoon. The plan did not work. The island was abandoned, used as a cemetery for victims of the Black Plague of 1348 and swallowed up by the lagoon a few decades later.

However, by filling the galley with sand and mud to sink it, the monks' doomed feat of engineering kept the ship in perfect condition for over six centuries. The documentary, entitled "Venezia e la galea perduta" (Venice and the Lost Galley), reconstructs this story.

It also examines the functions the ship would have had before it was scuppered - experts believe the 40-meter long vessel was used both as a battle ship and to carry cargo - and the awesome naval and economic power of the Venetian Republic at that time.

The film, which has been sold to distributors all over the world, also reveals what this archaeological find tells us about how galleys were made in the 13th and 14th centuries. The ship has already been the subject of several books, including a novel.

It was found during an operation to map out the lagoon's underwater archaeological sites and see which were in most urgent need of restoration or excavation. "The restoration of the lagoon has led to the recovery of environments and important archaeological discoveries, giving Venice back important parts of its history that were being lost," said Giancarlo Galan, the president of the Region of Veneto, which supported the production of the documentary.

"With this film we once again show the economic efforts the regional government is making to restore Veneto". Scientists from the Venice Research Consortium (CVR) claim the lagoon is the greatest underwater area of archaeological interest in the world.

Unfortunately, pollution, fishing, water transport and marine organisms are eating away at the historical material. As a result, some submerged and semi-submerged sites are decaying rapidly and are at risk of being lost for good, the CVR warns.

Climate change, geopolitical changes, new information and building technologies make it crucial to adapt our lifestyles, our cities, our logistics systems, our buildings to give us the possibility to live as communities today and in the future.

The shortage of energy, water scarcity, depleting natural resources, the increasing global population, and the continuous rise of people living in urban areas are all phenomena that will require our places to adapt to new needs, whether natural or social.

Cities have become particularly vulnerable to climate impacts, such as rising temperatures, flooding, and storms. Geopolitical changes contribute to the migration of people from one land to another. Borders are becoming increasingly impenetrable, and migratory flows are marked by disparities and inequalities. Rich countries close themselves off, poor countries sell themselves out, populations mix, and societies change.

Adapting to all these changes requires collaboration between governments, communities and individuals. It requires investment in research and development, along with forward-looking policies that can create places that are sustainable today and adaptable to new needs tomorrow.

Over the decades, we have tried hard to fight this, we have created a world that, perhaps pretended, told us about sustainable spaces, places, societies and living together. In the last two years, all this has been overwhelmed.

In all this, will humanity, which has always had the ability to rethink itself, revolutionizing previous models and shaping nature to new needs, succeed in redesigning new models of sustainable living?

In all this, will humanity, which has always had the ability to rethink itself, revolutionizing previous models and shaping nature to new needs, succeed in redesigning new models of sustainable living? Is adaptation the new model of life?

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Titled Common Destiny, the documentary tells the stories of ordinary people fighting for their dreams across five continents, whose lives are affected by the BRI, China's multi-billion-dollar global trading and infrastructure initiative.

One of these stories is about a schoolgirl who wants to become an artist, and who lives in an isolated village in Kenya. Because there is no art teacher at the village school, she decides to set out for the distant capital, Nairobi.

At first she tries to walk there, but discovers that there is a railway with trains that can take her to Nairobi. She saves money for a ticket by selling milk from the family goat, until she is finally able to travel to the capital. There, she finds an art teacher willing to come back to her village to teach her and the other kids.

Another story is about a retired papermaker who lives in the Spanish city of Cuenca. He decides to travel to China, where paper was invented thousands of years ago, to connect with a master craftsman in a remote village. There, he learns the ancient way of making paper. This inspires him, and when he returns home to Cuenca he reopens his studio and hires a young apprentice.

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