IN SPITE OF GREAT ADVANCES IN FORMAL METHOD IN SOCIAL SCIENCE, MUCH OF THE UNDERSTANDING OF PERSISTING AND GENERAL RELATIONSHIPS DEPENDS UPON A GRASP THAT IS TOTALLY INDEPENDENT OF SOME FORMAL METHOD. IN ADVANCING SOCIAL SCIENCE, WE INVENT AND PRACTICE TECHNIQUE AND CULTIVATE A HUMANISTIC ART. (Robert Redfield)
Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public’s perception of reality. A “behind the scenes” look at media mind-control and brain-washing propaganda, directed against the unsuspecting masses.
In a compelling and at times disturbing series, Dr Michael Mosley explores the brutal history of experimental psychology.
Mosley embarks on three journeys to understand science’s last great frontier - the human mind - as he traces the history of the attempts to understand and manipulate the brain.
Experiments on the human mind have led to profound insights into how our brain works - but have also involved great cruelty and posed some terrible ethical dilemmas.
Mind Control
To begin, Michael traces the sinister ways this science has been used to try to control our minds. He finds that the pursuit of mind control has led to some truly horrific experiments and left many casualties in its wake.
Extraordinary archive captures what happened:
scientists systematically change the behavior of children
law abiding citizens give fatal electric shocks
a gay man has electrodes implanted in his head in an attempt to turn his sexuality
Emotions
In this film, Michael investigates how scientists have struggled to understand that most irrational and deeply complex part of our minds - our emotions. Michael meets survivors - both participants and scientists - of some of the key historical experiments.
Many of these extraordinary research projects were captured on film - an eight-month-old boy is taught to fear random objects, baby monkeys are given mothers made from wire and cloth, and an adult is deliberately violent before a group of toddlers.
Broken Brains
Dr Michael Mosley concludes his series exploring the brutal history of experimental psychology by looking at how experiments on abnormal brains have revealed the workings of the normal brain.
He meets remarkable individuals like Karen, who suffered from a rare condition - alien hand syndrome - which meant that one of her hands constantly attacked her.
And Julia, who seems to have recovered from her stroke - until experiments reveal she is unable to recall the name of any object.
Home belonging to an uncontacted Indian tribe are surrounded by crops in a clearing in the Javari Valley of the western Amazon.
Brazilian officials have confirmed the existence of approximately 200 Indians who live in the western Amazon with no contact with the outside world.
This uncontacted tribe is not "lost" or unknown, according to tribal advocacy group Survival International. In fact, about 2,000 uncontacted Indians are suspected to live in the Javari Valley where the tribe's homes were seen from the air.
But confirming the tribe's existence enables government authorities to monitor the area and protect the tribe's way of life.
In 2008, Survival International released photos of another uncontacted tribe near the Brazil-Peru border. The striking images revealed men aiming arrows skyward at the plane photographing them.
Uncontacted Indian groups are aware of the outside world, a Survival International spokesperson told LiveScience at the time. But they chose to live apart, maintaining a traditional lifestyle deep in the Amazon forest. The latest images reveal that the newly confirmed tribe grows corn, peanuts, bananas and other crops.
Because the tribes are so isolated, contact with the outside world can be deadly. Survival International's website, http://www.uncontactedtribes.org, tells the story of the uncontacted Zo'e tribe.
When missionaries contacted the tribe in 1987, 45 Indians died of common diseases that they had never encountered and thus had no tolerance for, including the flu. In Peru, half of the previously uncontacted Nahua tribe died of disease after oil exploration began on their land in the 1980s.
Nearby oil exploration in Peru also threatens the newly confirmed tribe, Fabricio Amorim of Brazil's Indian Affairs Department said in a statement.
"Among the main threats to the well-being of these groups are illegal fishing, hunting, logging, mining, cattle ranching, 'missionary' actions… and drug trafficking," Amorim said.
I am an independent ethnographic filmmaker engaged in visually exploring and documenting the fast disappearing tribal and rural traditions of India. Apart from anthropology, I am into metaphysics and shamanism investigating the nature of Multiverse and the contemporary crisis of planet Earth.
(sathyamohanpv@gmail.com)
I am an independent ethnographic filmmaker engaged in visually exploring and documenting the fast disappearing tribal and rural traditions of India. Apart from anthropology, I am into metaphysics and shamanism investigating the nature of Multiverse and the contemporary crisis of planet Earth.
I hold a Diploma in Photography, a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Archaeology and a Master of Arts degree in Social Anthropology.
In 1988 I won the National Award of the first University Grants Commision, India, Educational TV Festival for best production of an ethnographic film, for my film on the Koyas, a peasant tribe in Andhra Pradesh, India.
I was sponsored as an overseas guest in the Second International Film Festival, Conference and Workshop on Ethnographic Film held in Manchester, UK, organized by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and Granada Television, UK in 1990.
My film on the Samanthas was screened in the competitive category of the International Film Festival on Science, Society and Development held at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India in 1995.
My film on the Chenchus, an only living (Nallamalai forests of Andhra Pradesh) hunting gathering tribe in the mainland India, won a Golden Nandi Award (First Best Documentary Film) in 2003 and a Special Mention Award in the Mumbai International Film Festival 2004 for "portraying an ancient Indian tribe in a sensitive manner". The film was screened in the 18th Parnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival (2004), Estonia and in the 8th International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava 2004 (Czech Republic).
I have received Gold Medals and numerous other awards, spoken at conferences and published a wide variety of work in ethnography and visual anthropology.
Filmography:
In search of Ethnic Dimension "THE KOYAS" (1988)
"THE SAMANTHAS" an anthropo vision (1994)
"ARCHIVE" a source for the past (1995)
"CHENCHUS" Children of the Forest an ethnic vision (2003)
"TRIBAL DISPLACEMENT" an anthropo vision (2004)
"PAST LIFE THERAPY" a workshop series (2008)
"DISCOURSE WITH THE DEAD" Sora Shamanism
"TRANSCENDING THE DEAD" Guar Ceremony of the Soras
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