02/02/23 02/02/23 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy:rom new york, this is democracy now! >> this violent act was not in pursuit of public safety. it was not in the interest of keeping the public safe because one must ask, was it not in the interest of keeping the public safe that tyre nichols would be

here with us today? amy: vice president kamala harris addressed mourners in memphis at the funeral of tyre nichols. he died january 10 after being brutally beaten by police after a traffic stop. we will air excerpts of the funeral. then atlanta annoues cup city will go forward -- cop city will go forward. we will look at aanta's crackdown on protesters. >> i riewed therrest warranor thoseharged wh dostic terrism and found none of them are accused of seriously injuring anyone. amy: plus we speak to shaunak sen, the director of the oscar-nominated documentary "all that breathes" about two brothers who run a bird hospital in new delhi, india.

amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. mourners gathered in memphis wednesday for the funeral of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old black father whose death after a brutal police beating has sparked protests across the country. speakers at the funeral included vice president kamala harris and the reverend al sharpton. this is tyre's mother rowvaughan wells. >> tyre was a beautiful person. and for this to happen to him, it is unimaginable.

i probably -- the only thing that is keeping me going is the fact i choose to believe my son is sitting beside me from god. amy: newly released documents show four of the five officers who are facing murder charges for killing tyre nichols had faced prior disciplinary complaints. the local district attorney is reportedly considering new charges against the officers, including false reporting for lying on the initial police report. the college board has revised its curriculum for an advanced placement african american studies course just weeks after florida's republican governor ron desantis threatened to ban the class in florida schools. the revised curriculum removes black lives matter, slavery reparations, and queer theory as required topics while it adds a section on black conservatism. many prominent authors and academics have also been removed

from the ap curriculum, including the late james baldwin, the author ta-nehasi coates, the law professors michelle alexander and kimberle crenshaw, professor barbara ransby, and the late bell hooks. ucla professor robin d.g. kelley, whose writings were also removed from the curriculum, said -- "this is deeper than an ap course. this is about eliminating any discussion that might be critical of the united states of america, which is a dangerous thing for democracy." the college board announcement came on the first day of black history month. the biden administration has reached an agreement with the philippines to give the united states access to four more military bases in the former u.s. colony. this will allow the u.s. greater access to the south china sea and taiwan as tensions rise between washington and beijing. the deal was announced after u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin met philippine president ferdinand rcos, jr. in manila. marcos is the son of the former

dictator ferdinand marcos who was a close u.s. ally. filipino activists held a protest outside the military camp where austin and marcos met. this is former lawmaker and activist teddy casiño. >> it will only serve to bring tension in the south china sea. deploying just opportunities in the philippines [inaudible] amy: a russian missile strike has destroyed an apartment building in the eastern ukrainian city of kramatorsk killing at least three people and injuring 30. this comes as ukrainian leaders fear russia has begun is largest offensive since the start of the war. hundreds of thousands of russian troops are now in eastern -- inside ukraine. meanwhile, reuters is reporting the united states is preparing to announce a new $2 billion military package for ukraine

that will include new longer range missiles made by boeing for the first time. in other news on the war, human rights watch has accused the ukrainian military of using thousands of banned antipersonnel landmines around the eastern city of izium when it was occupied by russia. in burma, leaders of the ruling military junta extended a state of emergency by another six months wednesday, the second anniversary of the coup that overthrew the civilian government of aung san suu kyi. nearly 3000 people have been killed over the past two years in a brutal crackdown on protests. across burma, people took part in a silent protest as streets emptied and businesses shuttered for the day. protests also took place around the world, including in tokyo, where members of the burmese community gathered to speak out on the anniversary of the coup. >> in myanmar, there are so many people being killed and so many houses being burned down. the people need to work together

to show our voices are the same. amy: in related news, a new investigation by the guardian reveals how the u.s., u.k., and irish oil and gas service companies have continued to reap massive profits in burma following the 2021 military coup while propping up the junta. the u.s. companies include halliburton, diamond offshore drilling, and baker hughes. in britain, half a million teachers, civil servants, and train drivers joined a nationwide strike wednesday forcing schools to shut down and halting rail service. it was the largest such work stoppage in a generation and comes on the heels of a historic nurses strike last month. workers called for fair wages amid soaring inflation. some 300,000 teachers took part in walkout wednesday. this is mary bousted of the national education union. >> teachers are striking because

there have been over the last 12 years, really catastrophic long-term decline in their pay. teachers have lost 13% over that period. in real terms, that is a huge amount to lose. that is causing with recruitment and retention crisis in our schools. amy: a number of students joined their teachers on the street, including 10-year-old issa yeboah-asante from london. >> who is suffering fm our teachers not having ough money to be paid, so i think i should miss some school because i believe teachers should have their funding. amy: in iran, a couple who posted a video of themselves dancing in the street has been sentenced to five yes in prison each according to local reports. 21-year-old astiyazh haghighi and her fiancé 22-year-old amir mohammad ahmadi were arrested after posting a video on instagram of themselves dancing

in front of the azadi tower in downtown tehran. in theideo, astiyazh's hair was uncovered. the video was posted in november as nationwide protests rocked iran. the republican-controlled house of representatives has voted 218-209 along party lines to move forward with a resolution to remove democratic congressmember ilhan omar from the house committee on foreign affairs. a final house vote is expected today. in an interview on cnn, omar said republicans are targeting her because she is muslim. >> you remember marjorie taylor greene coming to congress after rashida and i got sworn and sang muslims are infiltrating congress. you remember boebert saying i was a terrorist. what did mccarthy do? he said she apologized and we don't have to worry about her islamophobia.

that never happened. so these people are ok with islamophobia. they are ok with trafficking in their own ways of anti-semitism. they are not ok with having a muslim have a voice on that committee. amy: congress member ilhan omar is the only african muslim refugee in congress. in economic news, the federal reserve has approved an additional quarter point hike to its benchmark interest rate. in a statement, the groundwork collaborative criticized the fed's decision, saying -- "with today's rate hike, the fed is pushing us dangerously close to an unnecessary recession that would spell disaster for low-wage workers, workers of color, and vulnerable communities." here in new york city, police evacuated an encampment of asylum seekers outside the watson hotel late wednesday, threatening to arrest anyone who did not leave. videos show sanitation workers throwing suitcases into a dumpster. the asylum seekers who were recently evicted from the hotel have been protesting the city's plan to house them in a 1000-bed

shelter at a remote terminal in brooklyn. people who have been staying at the shelter told the group south bronx mutual aid they have had to endure inhumane conditions including extreme cold. to see our full coverage of this story, go to democracynow.org. and in washington state, more than 85 people locked up at the northwest detention center immigration prison have gone on hunger strike to protest mistreatment and inhumane conditions. their demands include nutritious meals, clean facilities, and proper medical care. the prisoners say they are forgoing food despite harsh retaliation from ice and geo group, which runs the detention center. since the hunger strike started, external communications have been cut off and cells have been locked down. there are reports guards in riot gear fired pepper spray at the hunger strikers. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report.

i'm amy goodman, joined by my democracy now! co-host nermeen shaikh. hi, nermeen. nermeen: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. mourners gathered in memphis wednesday for the funeral of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old black father whose death after a brutal police beating has sparked protests across the country. we begin today's show with excerpts from the funeral, which was held at the mississippi boulevard church. this is vice president kamala harris. vice pres. harris: mothers around the world, when their babies are born, pray to god. when they hold that child, that that body and that life will be safe for the rest of his life. yet we have a mother and a father who mourn the life of a

young man who should be here today. they have a grandson who now does not have a father. his brothers and sister will lose the love of growing old with their baby brother. and when we look at this situation, this is a family that lost their son and their brother through an act of violence at the hands and feet a people who have been charged with keeping them safe. [applause] vice pre harris: and when i think about their courage and the strength of this family, i think it demands that we speak truth. and with this i will say, this violent act was not in pursuit

of public safety. it was not in the interest of keeping the public safe. because one must ask, was it not in the interest of keeping the public safe that tyre nichols would be here with us today? [applause] vice pres. harris: was he not also entitled to the right to be safe? so when we talk about public safety, let us understand what it means in its truest form. tyre nichols should have been safe. so i will just close by saying this, i was, as a senator, as a united states senator, a co-author of the original george floyd justice of policing act.

and as vice president of the united states, we demand that congress passed the george floyd justice and policing act post of joe biden will sign it. and we should not delay and we will not be denied. it is nonnegotiable. >> the president the national action network, the reverend al sharpton. >> early this morning before dawn, i did what i often do when i come to memphis. i went out to the lorraine motel. as a youngster i joined sclc operation bread basket. i had been a boy preacher in the church of god in christ and my mother was concerned when i was

12 that i was getting too involved in looking at activism. she took me to my bishop who said, i know what to do with him. he brought me to reverend william jones, who led dr. king's organization in new york and reverend jesse jackson. and at 13, the year dr. king died i was 13 years old, i became youth director of the chapter in new york. so it was my growing up in the king movement in the north after his death that makes me come to the lorraine hotel and look at the spot that dr. king died. this morning i took my youngest daughter ashely with me. and i told the story of how dr.

king had came to memphis to fight for garbage workers, city employees that had no safety -- who had been killed with a malfunction. and here we are, actually, 55 years later, looking at the balcony where martin luther king shed his blood for city workers, for black city workers to be able to work in the police department, work in sanitation. and the reason why, mr. and mrs. wells, what happened to tyre is so personal to me is that five black men that wouldn't have had a job in the police department -- [applause]

would not ever be thought of to be in an elite squad, in the city that dr. king lost his life , not far away from that balcony, you beat a brother to death. there is nothing more insulting and offensive to those of us that fight to open doors, that you walk through those doors and act like the folks we had to fight to get you through them doors. [applause] you didn't get on the police department by yourself. the police chief didn't get there by herself.

people had to march and go to jail and some lost their lives to open the doors for you, and how dare you act like that sacrifice was for nothing. you ain't in no new england state, you're in tennessee. i bring you together to bring our call of action, the attorney general of black america, attorney benjamin crump. >> rowvaughn, michael, keyana, i know we can't bring tyre back, but in this call to action, we

establish his legacy. and let's neveforget memphis because his legacy will be one of equal justice. it will be the blueprint going forward because we have to remember that in less than 20 days when it was five black police officers captured on a video engaging in excessive use of force, when they were on video that they were terminated, they were arrested, and they were charged. and the police chief davis -- and i have respect for her saying this -- the police chief said that it was important that the community see us take swift action. they said it was important we move swiftly toward justice.

well, when laquan mcdonald was killed in chicago and by white police officers, it is important that the community see's with justice, too. it is important community see swift justice, too. when stephan clark was killed in sacramento, california, it is important community see swift justice, too. killed in staten island, new york, it is important the community see swift justice, too. when pamela turner was killed in houston, texas, it is important that the community see swift justice, too. when bj was killed on thanksgiving night in birmingham, alabama, it is important to community see swift justice, too. when terrence was a black man

having car trouble in broad daylight in tulsa, oklahoma, walking away with his hands up and they shot him in the back on video, it was important that the community see swift justice, too, on that. when botham jean was eating ice cream and his own apartment, please want to come in shoot and kill him and say, "i thought it was my apartment" and in her position in self-defense, it was a need to have swift justice, too. and so no more. no more can they ever tell us when we have evidence on video of them brutalizing us that it is going to take six years, that it is going to take a month, that it is going to take three years like laquan mcdonald.

no, no, no. 20 days. we are going to start counting. we can count to 20. every time you kill one of us on video, we are going to say the legacy of tyre nichols is that we have equal justice swiftly! swiftly1 swiftly. >> these are two of the sisters of tyre. >> tyre was my baby brother. him i are 11 years apart. i loved him dearly. being the oldest of three boys, i had to watch my brothers and take them places i did not want to take them, watch them at times when i didn't want to watch them. but with ty i did not mind. he never wanted anything but to watch cartoons and a big bowl of cereal. so it was pretty easy to watch him.

on the night of january 7, my brother was robbed of his life come his passions, and his talents but not his life. when my mother called me and said i baby brother was gone, i lost my faith. i cried. i screamed at god, asking him how good he let this happen. then my cries turned to anger and anger turned to deep sorrow. a pain i had never felt when those monsters murdered by baby brother -- my baby brother. it left me completely heartbroken.

i see the world showing him love and fighting for his justice, but all i want is my baby brother back. and even in his demise, he was still polite. he asked to "please stop." he was still the polite young man that he always was. he asked them to of quote please stop" and they didn't. that is why my family will never be the same and i will just always love my baby brother forever. thank you. amy: that was keyana dixon, sister of tyre nichols, speaking at her brother's funeral in memphis, tennessee, wednesday. this is democracy now! today president biden is meeting with members of the

congressional black caucus at the white house to discuss police reform. coming up, atlanta announces cop city will go for despite growing opposition and the police killing of a forest defender. we will look at the city's crackdown on protesters. 19 of them have been charged with domestic terrorism. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break]

amy: the mississippi boulevard celebration choir singing "you are my strength" at tyre nichols ' funeral. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. we turn to atlanta, where mayor andré dickens announced tuesday that the highly contested $90 million police training facility known as "cop city" is moving forward despite growing opposition and the police killing of a forest defender. just weeks ago, law enforcement

officers, including a swat team, were violently evicting protesters who had occupied a wooded area outside the center when they shot and killed longtime activist manuel terán, who went by the name "tortuguita." police came officers were fired on, though activists there dispute the account. the activists have been camping out in weelaunee forest for months to prevent its destruction. this is alanna mayor andre dickens speaking tuesday. >> we have reached an agreent with dekalb county to iss constrtion a movthe oject foard. ve admistratn is aggressily commied to enronment protecti. we are uniquelfocused expandg our protect green aces ithe city in my fit year of office ale, t city atlanta and our paners auired an additional 260 acres around e city to be used for forcing green space. amy: at the news conference,

reporters asked if any protester were still occupying the proposed cop city site. this was his response. >> as of this time, everyone is available to vacate the area. amy: outside city hall, protesters chanted "cop city will never be built." this is counity ornizer mih herski. >> how dare eytandn front of peopland say,,his is go for the enomy a it is gng prote people. it is fae and i he it i report as such becae it is ch claic,lata spihat theyre takinus for fl'if eyhink aone belies tt teing downrees of tting ment ove it is protecting the environment. at is trageous. amy: earlier this week coalition , a of more than 1300 climate and racial justice groups called for the resignation of atlanta's democratic mayor saying he has failed to denounce the police for shooting dead activist and

known as tortuguita and instead criticized the protesters. this is mayor dickens speaking over the weekend about the protesters. >> it should be noted these individuals were not atlanta or georgia residents. most traveled into our city to wreak havoc. amy: we will look more at the crackdown on cop city and what their protesters have been charged with domestic terrorism. we are joined by alleen whose new investigation for grist is headlined "documents show how 19 'cop city' activists got charged with terrorism: georgia police are invoking a 2017 terrorism law against activists accused of little more than trespassing." alleen, welcome back to democracy now! you report that nine of the forest defenders facing domestic terrorism are accused simply of trespassing in the woods by camping and living in a tree house. one person was deemed part of defend the atlanta forest for "occupying a tree house while wearing a gas mask and camouflage clothing."

can you just please explain? >> yeah, so thank you so much for having me. i reviewed 20 arrest warrants for 19 people charged with domestic terrorism in atlanta and found none of those individuals are allegedo have committed any act that seriously injured anyone. like you mentioned, nine of the warrants described no specific illegal acts despite essentially camping in a forest. instead, for those charged in the forest, domestic terrorism allegations seem to rest on the idea that the department of homeland security designated people associated with the slogan "defend the atlanta forest" to be domestic violence extremists. isked dhs and they told me they don't classify any groups

that way, although they do communicate with local d state officials about threats. nermeen: could you explain the origins of georgia's terror law and how it is that these people were charged? >> yeah, so georgia's domestic terrorism law passed in 2017 and it was really drafted as a means to confront these mass shootings that we see month in and month out. specifically lawmakers named the 2015 massacre of nine black churchgoers in charleston, south carolina, who were shot and killed by white supremacist dylan roof. essentially, this law was created to address violence by white supremacist. at the time civil over these

groups really put out that this was going to be used instead against people expressing their first amendment rights and marginalized communities. so it appears a version of that is what has come to pass and it really serves as a warning signal to people on both sides of the party lawmakers, that have continued to suggest new domestic terrorism legislation is necessary to confront mass shootings. amy: the daily show went to the atlanta forest to cover the movement to stop cop city. we want to go to a clip. >> bingo. you'll have bingo? where's the molotov cocktail station? where is the gun training station? >> the majority of us just want to live in peace with each other. >> we do yoga and we meditate. >> we have massages. >> you get massages?

you do like therapy. amy: if only what was happening there was so funny. alleen brown, if you could take it from there? also, if they face domestic terrorism charges, how many years in prison do they face? did this make it easier if the protesters are considered domestic terrorists for swat teams to move in and, in the case of tortuguita, to kill them? >> so these charges carry mandatory minimums of five to 35 years, so they are very serious charges. yo kw, a lotfeople -- attorneyare sayi that they arlegally ite fms thlaw saysou have commit felony iorder toe chard with dtic terrism in

orgia. as whave taldbouta lot of theseeople e charge with sdemeanotrespassg. t,ou kno the ideis that th may not be mea -- thes charges manot be mnt to stick, perhaps instead it is to send a msagehat thiss a crimin gro, these e terrists, a maybeomeone wi more modere use es not nt to affiliad with sh group. so in that sense, it creates sort of public ratio messag that phaps doemake itasr to go and evi pele and escate to sothing like wt we saw ojanuary 18 with tortuguita. amy: if you can respond to the mayor's latest announcement, there moving forward with police and the feeling in atlanta with what this is and if you could explain what it is? >> sure.

what i found is this is really a wide-ranging movement. there are forest defenders occupying the forest, fitting the trees. there also parks advocates, people concerned about police brutality, gentrification, neighborhood associations that stood out against this project. so i think i lent to officials, as long as they continue to push this, are going to continue to face a really kind of strong wide-ranging movement. amy: alleen brown, thank you for being with us. we will link to your piece. investigative reporter who covers environmental justice and the ways the climate crisis impacts criminalized populations. the new piece in grist is headlined "documents show how 19 'cop city' activists got charged with terrorism." coming up, he is nominated for an oscar for his film, the documentary "all that breathes."

we will speak with director shaunak sen about the film he made about two brothers in new delhi who run a bird hospital in their basement next to a metal shop. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break]

amy: "iron galaxy" by cannibal ox. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. as we turn now to a stunning new film just nominated for an oscar called "all that breathes." it follows two brothers in new delhi, india, who are self taught bird doctors who are trying to save a kind of bird called the black kite, which is suffering from the dirty air. they are falling from the sky. this is what film maker magazine wrote about "all that breathes." >> you don't care for things

because they share the same country, religion, or politics. life itself is kinship, we are all a community of air. those are the poetic words heard in the closing voiceover of shaunak sen's mesmerizing "all that breathes." it is an ambitiously intricate study of the intersection of environmental collapse, religious tension, and the love of two muslim brothers for a feathered scavenger unnervingly falling from a smoggy sky. that again the opening of the article in film maker magazine. this is the trailer for "all that breathes."

amy: the trailer for the oscar-nominated documentary "all that breathes." the film premieres tuesday, february 7, on hbo. after its premier last year, it became the only film ever to win

best documentary prize at both the sundown film festival and cannes. we are joined by the director, shaunak sen, who lives in delhi but joins us today from munich, germany. welcome to democracy now! what a remarkable, breathtaking, transformative film. this is an odd question but if you can start off by talking about not only why you made this film, but also dene it as what you did not want it toe. >> first, thank you. that is very kind of you. the film started more than anything else with what wdid not want to make. to begin with, i mostly wanted to steer clear of three things. firstly, i did not want to make

a life doc or a fundamental he social political documentary come and mostly i didn't want to make a sweet film about doing good things. instead we wanted to make something which is cinematic about the air of daily come about birds, what is remarkable -- d inelhi, about birds, what is remarkable. you live in the city of delhi, you're almost always preoccupied with the air. it is this gray, opaque, heavy expanse. you are oh sort of preoccupied with it.

thinking about human and nonhuman entanglement. i wanted to do something which is kind of abstract try you like and of air, bir, and humans. essentially, that is how the film began. i remember sitting in a car looking at the great expanse of delhi and at 1.i had the distinct prescient someone of the black dots, the birds, black kite, plummet to the ground. i literally ggled where do birds who from the sky go. inherently, very cinematic stop very dense and tiny industrial --

fever dream, really. it took us three years to make it. nermeen: the film is really the highest aesthetic quality which all reviewers have said. the mood you have created is simultaneously melancholic but also transcendent. part of the reason for that is the brothers, the kinds of things that brothers do, of course, in treating these wounded birds but also these extraordinary insights they offer throughout the film on both the human and animal condition. could you talk about that, how -- when you started speaking to the brothers, what you're most struck by an when you decided that they would be the central focus of the film you wanted to make? >> i knew the story had to be

ecological, sociopolitical, and emotional. it had to be about the family. an emotional story between the two of them, their relationship wi the birds. and like the stuff that happening around their homes was interesting. it more than anything else, philosophers will steps such philosophers -- philosophers. such philosophers. had to be meditative and contemplative. for the first euros doing a lot of handholding, conventional shooting -- handheld, conventional shooting.

went to trash about eight months of shooting because it had to be more cinematic and meditative, in sync with other brothers were. loosely focused on birds and other life forms from his two decades. we decided we needed to have the kind of -- even though we don't tell characters what to do, dollies and cranes and stuff to tell a nonfiction story so the outer covering of the film is like hopefully a very cinematic kind of object, whereas the we the people are behaving is naturalistic because nobody told him how to behave. essentially, the film had to be this aesthetic thing to really get the point across in a more

nuanced manner. this is not a film -- it is oblique. the form had to be beautiful, essentially. nermeen: that is absolutely true, the film is extremely subtle in the things that it says and also the things that it does not say. now, i just want to ask about something before we go to another clip from the film. you have said that films are meant to be trojan horses. saying in another interview, "we have to speak in things and whisper things to the better angels of people's nature." explain what you mean. >> the thing is, a lot of environmentalist films, a lot of gloom and doom, despair or romanticized vitality. life is more brutal than that.

i felt the ideas yet open up the conversation -- we are filmmakers. emotionally move audiences, especially -- the problem with environment films or political films and so on, when you go at audiences wi a sledgehammer and hold them by the collar and say, "feel this about that" it is very offputtin or you are preaching to the choir or audiences that have a different value system. the ideas our skill set is to be able to rouse feelings and emotionally move people. the idea is to open the conversation and not close it . to nudge it obliquely or tangentially, instead of

hitting em on the nose. the things you a to talk about , you don't really need to constantly shine a light on it frankly were conspicuously. the unrest around them. all of that is -- obliquely nights at things. that is what i meant. amy: i want to go to a clip from your film "all that breathes" beginning with the two brothers helper holding a wounded kite that famous bird that flies over delhi, in the basement where they treat the birds.

amy: "have you ever felt vertigo oking into the sky?" we are talking to shaunak sen, who is the film maker that made this film "all that breathes." i watched this film after midnight last that with my little pup at my side, who cocked her head every time she heard the sounds of the animals, could not stop staring. i tell us about who these brothers are, with their helper, how they came to set up this animal hospital. >> the brothers live in the northern part of delhi. over the last 15ears, they have treated over 25,000 black kites through what appears to be a very slapdash kind of work. for the longest time, they were

grubby, dingy, tiny camp. these birds falling down in scores in delh from the sky. when they started, initially what happened, they realized a lot of the hospitals were overrun and they had to treat the birds themselves. they had no training in it at all, no medical training at all. they used to be amateur bodybuilders as teenagers. they would pick up injured black kites and bring them home and sort of developed their own techniques to repair and heal these birds. one thing led to the other and over time, people started bringing their injured kites to them. today, have become this kind of informal hospital moving toward full formality now.

what they have done is singular and incredible and wonderful, but the film apart from the loveliness of what they do come is really an investigation of their profound -- an investigation of their lives. and what compels people to do what they do and what it means when the foreground of your life is a consideration of the entanglement of han, not human life. when you think of a kinship. my interest in the film was about their minds and every day life and that is how it started. nermeen: let's go to another clip from "all that breathes," which begins with a wounded bird being brought into the basement for treatment.

nermeen: another clip from "all that breathes." can you lk about that? and just finally, if you could mention the filmmakers who inspired you and inspired this film? >> for sure. the thing is, this was not a film that was like a regular

occupational document or. i wanted to make something that is cinematic and aesthetically beautiful. i was influenced by russian filmmaker who has this incredible -- incredibly short films, phenomenal. i really recommend him. and another russian great was a huge influence. new york-based film maker was also very influential. other than that, just slow takes and have a particular relationship with the world or the planet or nature has been important. for instance, terrence -- amy: 10 seconds.

>> even to hold the political -- thank you. amy: shaunak sen, thank you, director of "all that breathes."

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