Reblogged from environmental contexts and creative responses:
Nora Bateson, daughter of Gregory Bateson, is touring with a film she herself made, about her father's ideas. As she said in her introduction, his ideas are shown through the lens of a father-daughter relationship, it is her own viewpoint. She uses tapes made by Bateson near his death, and the film combines footage from different epsiodes in his life to illustrate some themes, continuity in his academic career as he moved between social anthropology, systems theory, psychology.
Kate Foster's personal response to An Ecology of Mind...