Jumping through hoops, dwelling on free will, free women in Iran: some audio-visual to cleanse your lens

Our occasional spritz of cleanser on the doors of perception… this week theme is broadly about agency. What do you choose to accept? What energy do you need to break out of routine? Is it a “who” or a “what” that makes the decision?

Above is an ad for a banking app, Tangerine - but ignore the idea that the protagonist is liberated from a world of “jumping through hoops” by its services, and enjoy the ingenuity of the ad-maker in showing what such a society might literally mean. Can we also note that his perch, at the end, is all too precarious?

From Aeon:

The debate around free will has been raging for millennia and, frankly, isn’t likely to be settled any time soon. But, as this short documentary from BBC Reel demonstrates, that doesn’t mean it isn’t a debate worth having. By interviewing leading thinkers across neuroscience, physics and moral philosophy, the UK journalist Melissa Hogenboom investigates where the intersecting debates over free will currently stand. The film surveys some of the most contentious controversies surrounding free will – from the legacy of the ‘Libet experiment’ to the concept of moral responsibility – to provide a fascinating dive into our current understanding of how and why we make the decisions we make, and what that should mean for how we understand our world.

This is a promotional film for the Woman Life Freedom Project - PAIRI DAEZA’s scarf collection in collaboration with twelve Iranian artists from all over the world: Ardeshir Tabrizi, Arghavan Khosravi, Hana Shahnavaz, Hanieh Ghashghaei, Mahboubeh Absalan, Maryam Keyhani, Maryam Sefati, Mona Danesh, Rahiilzz, Sara Emami, Tala Madani and Yasaman Rezaee. Quoting from the site:

Each artist has created a unique design, incorporating messages related to the current revolution in Iran, with the hope that these messages would travel through places and keep alive the conversation about this women-led revolution.

All profit from sales of the scarves will go to Abdorrahman Boroumand Center to support the movement in Iran.