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“My Octopus Teacher” arrives at the M.V. Film Center on Friday, June 4, and also screens on Tuesday, June 8, for World Ocean Day. This delightful documentary, written and directed by Pippa Ehrlich with South African filmmaker James Reed, follows a diver’s experience with the eight-legged creature swimming in a kelp forest off the southern […]
The artist on David Hockney’s move to France, a beautiful tale about an octopus, and the radio show he phones in to
The Great Escape season four Korean formats have been some of the most successful globetrotters in recent years, and in the case of South Korean producer/distributor CJ ENM, it’s behind one of the biggies: I Can See Your Voice (pictured). First airing in Korea in 2015, it’s a “music mystery” show in which celebrity judges need to identify good or bad singers without hearing them sing a note, and has been broadcast in 18 countries thus far, including the U.S. via Fox and the UK, on the BBC. The British version, produced by Naked and Thames, is off to a strong start, with 3.4 million...
Craig Foster reflects on a relationship that changed his connection to the natural world. By Brandon Keim It all started with an odd pile of shells: a pile that, upon closer inspection, fell apart like a flower losing its petals, introducing a burned-out nature documentarian named Craig Foster—and, in time, the world—to the octopus hiding cleverly inside. Known simply as “her,” she would become the star of My Octopus Teacher, the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary and surprise pandemic hit that told the story of Foster’s unlikely relationship with that eight-armed mollusk. Rel...
Do octopuses have souls? "My Octopus Teacher" and the question of octopus consciousness Salon 1 hr ago My Octopus Teacher Netflix Though their appearance is downright alien, octopuses are far more like humans than meets the eye. The octopus and its cephalopod brethren have been known to exhibit play-like behaviors, to use tools, and to be relatively social creatures. Their behavior is so familiar that, despite their differences from us, they sometimes seem to be as conscious as humans. That may not be the precise question formulated in "My Octopus Teache...