links to some of my films

  • Detroit: Water not flowing
  • Anti-Semitism – online to offline
  • Defying Death in South Sudan
  • Namibia’s Black Rhino: their last wild retreatDisability in South Africa
  • Disability in South Africa
  • Survivors of terrorism in Norway
  • The ‘most deaf’ rapper
  • My blog
  • Agriculture – humanity’s worst mistake – or not?

    Jared Diamond’s article, “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race,” written in 1987, has reportedly become a standard discussion point in anthropology classes – and it’s definitely a fascinating and provocative statement. His central thesis is as follows: Now archaeology is demolishing another sacred belief: that human history over the past million years […]

    francismead

    June 6, 2015
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  • Three recent films – South Sudan, Detroit and the Central African Republic

    After a long period of lesser activity following my head injury (bike accident in Central Park) I can claim to have become more active in recent months. Three films I’ve created – all for the UN 1 Defying death in South Sudan You are an unarmed UN civilian in charge of a compound where 12000 people […]

    francismead

    May 18, 2015
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  • Things have never been this good in human history

    Yep. I mean it. Apologies if you were expecting this to be a wry and unoriginal joke. We – the human race – have never had it so good. There’s plenty of evidence for this. The chances of the average global citizen, born today, dying from violent causes are the lowest in human history. Wars […]

    francismead

    March 16, 2015
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  • Science and religion do not get along

    I’ve frequently heard and read the opinion that science and religion are compatible – after all there are plenty of religious scientists, and, anyway, isn’t belief in religion ultimately the same as belief in science? I’ve concluded that they’re not compatible – neither fundamentally nor conceptually. I think when people argue for compatibility they are […]

    francismead

    May 27, 2014
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  • ‘Fire Island’ on its travels

    I shot a short drama film last October on Fire Island – unfortunately I didn’t get back to the island this year (probably because I’ve been recovering from concussion for the past seven months). The film is now out being pitched on the (rather expensive) film festival circuit. I suspect – as with pitching for […]

    francismead

    October 30, 2013
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  • Concussion thoughts

    I was going to say I have become an expert in concussion – but that would be stretching it a bit. But if you get a concussion, and it involves being off work for nine months, you do get more interested.  How the hell did it happen?  The short answer is I don’t know. I […]

    francismead

    October 23, 2013
    Uncategorized
    bicycle, brain injury, concussion, safety
  • Islam or anti-Islam?

    Debate on Islam/Islamophobia. I hope to contribute to a constructive, but maybe difficult conversation. This is following on from several conversation with a friend Bennett Beanit.  Also see link to debate on HuffPost below. My thoughts: Dear Bennett Thanks again for sharing the video – it’s prompted me to put down my thoughts on this […]

    francismead

    May 21, 2013
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  • German children in World War II – a dark history

      It began when I came across this picture online. I think it was taken by a Russian photographer after Berlin fell to the Russians (presumably sometime at the beginning of May 1945). Child soldiers had fought in panzer units in France and Hungary, and many children were recruited in a last-ditch attempt to defend […]

    francismead

    February 24, 2013
    Uncategorized
  • AIDS – the eerie ghost behind Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

    This is simply an eerie coincidence – but it’s a coincidence I can’t help reflecting on and feeling. Here’s the coincidence: Joseph Conrad travelled up the Congo river by steamship in the early 1890s to pick up a sick employee (with the company Conrad worked for) who died during the return trip. He based Heart […]

    francismead

    February 1, 2013
    Uncategorized
    AIDS, chimpanzee, Congo, Conrad, DRC, Heart of Darkness, HIV
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