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05172agm a2200469 i 4500 001 609E7D74851711EEB4A9908744ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231117010120 007 vd csaiz| 008 230908s2023 nyu080 vleng d 028 41 $a 2671 $b The Cinema Guild 035 $a (OCoLC)1396605031 040 $a VVC $b eng $e rda $c VVC $d OCLCO $d NUI $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 041 $a spa $a spa $j eng 043 $a n-mx--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-mx 046 $k 2023 $2 edtf 245 02 $a A common sequence / $c a film by Mary Helena Clark and Mike Gibisser. 257 $a Mexico $a Mexico $2 naf 264 1 $a Brooklyn, NY : $b The Cinema Guild, $c [2023] 300 $a 1 videodisc (80 min.) : $b sound, color ; $c 4 3/4 in. 340 $a plastic $a plastic $b 4 3/4 in. 538 $a DVD, 520 $a "A Common Sequence opens in PaÌtzcuaro, Mexico, exploring the ecosystem of its human and non-human inhabitants. Through the critically endangered native salamander, locally called the achoque, we meet the P'ureÌpecha fisherman Don Maurico and his family and Sister Ofelia Morales Francisco at the Basilica de la Nuestra SenÌora de la Salud. The fisherman and the nun are linked by the shared use of the salamander: as medicine, food, and commodity. This transformation of the salamander into "goods" segues into an exploration of the salamander's regenerative properties. A trove of data for genetic research, the salamander is a potential key to unlocking human limb and cell regeneration. nable to survive off of the lake depleted by invasive species, Don Maurico's sons travel to Washington State for work. Their migration story leads us to the city of Prosser, Washington: the heart of the US apple industry and the site of Washington State University's Agricultural Automation and Robotics Lab. In Prosser, we meet field workers who similarly migrated to the region for jobs. The film observes their expert fruit picking before shifting to a meditation on Artificial Intelligence-powered apple harvesters. As pneumatic arms pick commercially developed apples, local grower Dave Allan explains the methods of obtaining a plant patent. To own a plant patent law requires it must not come from seed; you must create something distinct from nature. Having followed labor practices across the Mexico-US border, A Common Sequence offers the salamander and apple as parallel subjects of extraction and privatization: fished, farmed, photographed and fed to neural networks, and crossed, grafted, patented, and translated into code. In a third geographical turn, we travel to the sovereign lands of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe where we meet Joseph Yracheta, a medical researcher and executive director of the Native BioData Consortium. Of P'ureÌpecha descent, Joseph outlines the ethical concerns in the privatization and commercialization of human DNA and the particular risks to indigenous populations. Genomics is the new biological commons, the new gold and oil, he says, and ripe for exploitation. A Common Sequence is narratively structured to fold back onto itself. In a return to the WSU robotics lab, the film raises the question of humans owning something they cannot comprehend-of patenting algorithms beyond human comprehension. We revisit the apple picking robot, this time through the metaphoric lens of knowledge acquisition: an AI robot in place of Eve. As day breaks over Lake Patzcuaro the fishermen continue their work. The film ends where it began but in a new light. What was distant, foreign, and historical is near, enmeshed, and ever present."--Back of case. 586 $a "Official Selection - Sundance Film Festival, Official Selection - Hot Docs International Film Festival"--Back of case. 546 $a Dialogue in English and Spanish; subtitles in English. 650 0 $a Bioethics. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014136 650 0 $a Biology. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014203 650 0 $a Capitalism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019958 650 0 $a Human genetics $x Moral and ethical aspects. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062877 650 0 $a Labor. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004091 650 0 $a Salamanders. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85116685 650 0 $a Endangered species $z PaÌtzcuaro. $z PaÌtzcuaro. 650 0 $a Apple industry $x Automation. 650 0 $a Indigenous peoples. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090174 655 7 $a Independent films. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2011026324 710 2 $a Cinema Guild, $e production company. $4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83154829 700 1 $a Clark, Mary Helena, $e director. $4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/drt $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019043462 700 1 $a Gibisser, Mike, $e director. $4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/drt $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018008146 941 $a 1 945 $a dvv 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015858.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=609E7D74851711EEB4A9908744ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search