Nora Bateson is a media producer and educator. Her work includes documentaries, multimedia productions, magazine columns, and developing curriculum for elementary and high school students. Central to all her pursuits is the idea of utilizing media and storytelling to encourage cultural understanding, social justice, and environmental awareness. Ms. Bateson has a steadfast dedication to the possibilities of human evolution, starting with encouraging young children to see the interrelatedness of the natural world with that of the “human-made” world using all media.
Nora speaks with Joanna about the process of making the film , the concept of beauty for Gregory Bateson, story as a co-evolving relationship, art and beauty as ways of intimacy with Nature, the perception of life as a “dynamic web of interrelationships”, paradox, play, double bind, the ecological imperative of changing our way of thinking about the world…
Music: soundtrack of the documentary “An Ecology of Mind” (voice: Nora Bateson, original music composed and performed by: Dan Brubeck, Miles Black, Jack Duncan, Rick Kilbourn, and Nora Bateson)
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I look to our world through the eye of curiosity, love and affection. The perception of life as a “dynamic web of interrelationships” enlarges my knowledge, my awareness, not only about the beauty of nature and the globe on which we all live, but also on the challenges and dangers we face. The outcome of this complex process brings my whole body-mind-emotional system ‘more’ in resonance with all other creatures on earth. I become a more caring person.
Kind regards, Etienne