An ecology of mind / Bullfrog Films presents ; a film by Nora Bateson ; director & executive producer, Nora Bateson ; co-producer & editor, David Sieburg ; scriptwriter & narrator, Nora Bateson.
Publisher:
Bullfrog Films,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Interviewees: Ralph Abraham, Lois Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson, Steward Brand, Jerry Brown, Fritjof Capra, Terry Deacon, Tim Keanini, William Thompson. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2010. Includes bonus scenes. Bonus features: Mary Catherine Bateson "Addiction" (51 sec.); Mary Catherine Bateson (Cybernetics" (2 min., 18 sec.); Fritjof Capra "Bateson's Crab Discussion" (1 min., 42 sec.); Fritjof Capra "Mind-Body" (1 min., 38 sec.); "Conversation and Tea with Bateson" (2 min., 42 sec.); Jerry Brown "The Ecology and the Economy" (54 sec.); Stewart Brand "The Futurists" (2 min., 39 sec.); Terry Deacon "On Beauty" (1 min., 25 sec.); Terry Deacon "Linear Causality" (1 min., 24 sec.); Tim Keanini "Epistemology" (3 min., 52 sec.).
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. How do we think -- 3. Relationships -- 4. Biography -- 5. The Macy Conferences -- 6. Ecology of mind -- 7. Epistemology -- 8. Difference -- 9. Double bind -- 10. Pattern -- 11. Changeability -- 12. Beauty -- 13. Conclusion.
Summary:
" ... a portrait of Gregory Bateson, celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist, and systems theorist. His story is lovingly told by his youngest daughter, Nora, with footage from Gregory's own films shot in the 1930s with his wife Margaret Mead in Bali and New Guinea, along with photographs, filmed lectures, and interviews. Gregory Bateson was a man who studied the interrelationships of the complex systems we live in with scientific rigor and enormous integrity. His theories, such as "the double bind" and "the pattern which connects", continue to impact the fields of anthropology, psychiatry, information science, cybernetics, urban planning, biology, and ecology, challenging people to think in new ways. Through this film, Nora Bateson sets out to show that his ideas are not just fodder for academic theory, but can help instruct a way of life. She presents his thinking using a richly personal perspective, focusing on the stories Bateson used to present his ideas and how the beauty of life itself provided the framework of his life's pursuits."--Publisher's website.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.