NP: Kazakh film industry

[David Morris]

--- Jeremy Osner wrote:
> A good brief article on the Kazakh film industry
> appears in this month's Economist. It says in part:
> 
> In the eyes of many Kazakhs, it is their
> culture which holds them back. They see
> America, and especially Hollywood, as
> imbued with a culture of forgetting.
> “Whenever you want to move forward you
> have to forget,” says one director. “We
> Kazakhs, by contrast, are nomadic. We
> favour oral tradition. Ours is a culture
> of remembering.”

Temporal Bandwith strikes again, along with the Word: 
Oral (and thus past-looking) traditions of "primitive"
cultures (Hereros too) smack up against "digital"
(written) "future"-oriented US-cultures.  "Future(s)"
here would be all about $$$$$$:  The maniacal
bus-ride.

DM


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