Boom Festival 2014 Official Webdoc #1: The Feminine
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ม.ค. 2015
- This is the first webisode of the Boom 2014 official webdocs. We take a look at the theme of Boom 2014, The Feminine, and how the current renaissance of the Feminine inspiration has been co-created at the Boom Festival. How has Boom reflected the theme? How inspired were the Boomers? What can we change in the world with the Feminine intention? What does it mean the Feminine?
This is the official series of 6 mini-webdocumentaries from Boom Festival 2014, where we will show some of the most fascinating projects, ideas, adventures, concepts and themes emerging from the 2014 edition of Boom Festival. For more episodes subscribe this channel.
Stay tuned for the next episodes on Boom Web TV! Don't miss episode 2 on March 13th.
Credits (in order of appearance):
MOTHER NATURE
opening ceremony
ROWAN BOMBADIL
conference: “wide open women”
STARHAWK
activist and writer
MEGAN
boom team
MARIANA
boom team
JOHN QUIGLEY OF SPECTRAL Q & MAGALIE BONNEAU-MARCIL OF DANCING WITHOUT BORDERS
aerial production
BEN WATKINS
Juno Reactor
KAVIL & SENYA
conference: “Love in the 5th dimension”
MAHADEV COMETO
musician
MAX IGAN
activist
Film produced by:
BOOM TEAM & DROID ID
Director
PAULO PRAZERES
Producers
PATRICIA GUERREIRO
PAULO PRAZERES
MIGUEL MANSO
Image by
MIGUEL MANSO
LUIS GRACIANO
PAULO PRAZERES
Editors
MARZIA BRAGGION
ANTÓNIO FORTE
Graphics and Color
MIGUEL SANTOS
Production Assistants
CLAUDIA DE OLIVEIRA
BARBARA AL FHARK
Interviews by
PAULO PRAZERES
LUIS GRACIANO
ROBERDO RAVAL
PATRICIA GUERREIRO
Sound recordists
FILIPE SAMBADO
ALEXANDRE PEREIRA
Sound Mixer
TIAGO INUIT
Music excerpts from Boom 2014 live sets:
GROUCH
JUNO REACTOR
MAHADEV COMETO
ATMOS
Special thanks to the boomers for being part of Boom Festival 2014
Boom Festival 2016
11-18 August - Full Moon
www.boomfestival.org
With Love
Boom Team - เพลง
![Estas Tonne @ Boom 2014 [Road to Utopia]](/img/n.gif)
Thanks you ***** for this video. I almost cried while watching it. So many meomries, So many powerfull emotional moments. I particularly think at the moment we shared just before de mother ceremony with hundreds of people. Dancing on the beach to gather all the people, and sharing a massive Ohmmmmmm alltogether. I had one of the most intense week of my entire life, and reminding it, almost 6 month later, is giving me hope back for my own life and the all world. We are not lost yet, we must not forget it. I love you all, all boomers, all thoses who will become boomers,and even all those who will never be able to go. This is not crap they talk about. This is real-intense-sensitive Connexion between souls of an incredible crowd. Much love ! P.L.U.R
You speak for many of us, Much love !
BEST WORLD EVER!!!! see you all in 2016!
Shivers all around. Love you Boom!
ПОТРЯСАЮЩЕ!
ЭТОТ ФЕСТИВАЛЬ ВХОДИТ В ПЯТЁРКУ САМЫХ ЛУЧШИХ СОБЫТИЙ ЧТО ПРОИСХОДИЛИ В МОЕЙ ЖИЗНИ НА ТО ВРЕМЯ!
🤗BOOM🤗
Grouuuuch :D Boom family you make EVERY DETAIL perfect! Thank you, this will be our entire world
Looking forward to see all of you in 2016 again :=)
powerfull video, never been there but i will go some day , i will not die without going to boom, you almost feel the atmosphere , the peace and the positive feelings in front of a computer, its really amazing.
Such wise words. Keep sharing these great thinking, wake up everyone :D see you at boom 2016! One love
amazing video! congrats to the makers! see u 2016!
boom changed my life...
Amazing experience ;) Un merveilleux été pleins de paix, d'amour et d'harmonie au Boum Festival 2014 :) A chaque instant surprise par toutes les créations, les jardins, les différents espaces et détails, les magnifiques scènes, cette esprit de liberté et de nature, la musique, le contact avec le monde entier, TOUT était exceptionnel !
2023 🎉❤ c'était tellement fort tellement bon que même aujourd'hui je récent les frissons. 🫶🫶
amazing doc as always
Speachless.
All the love .. all the love!!!
Amazing filming!!
Does anyone know the song at 9:10? Its mesmerising!
By far best 10 days of my entire life. yes its true!
Beautiful!
great video
To good to be true
We love Boom :)
Song at the begining?
This is BOOM!
buenas,,,, alguien sabria decirme el nombre de la canconen el minuto 1:55?
good ,,,, someone can tell me the name of the Canconen 1:55 minutes ?
OH YES!
what is the name of the last song? :)
entry song please
Atmos & Animato - Ensemble
14:10 :)
sonho...
Damn throath infection destroyed the whole festival for me :( would love to experience it fully consciouss (and especially without pain) once again!..
Please song at 14:17 ? Thanks!
We are one!
Alejandro Perdomo Atmos & Animato - Ensemble (after 6th minute)
Ba-Be-Bi-Bo-Boom!
Song at 1min20?
Grouch - Live At Boom Festival Chillout Stage
perdon ,,,,1:00 ,,, vamos la primera
Woo! Let’s all link arms and vomit together in tandem.
Much like the overblown drug references and the (white) fetish of the Oriental and the Indigenous, I’m also getting sick of this. Where to start? The overused recitations from the Upanishads (and other texts), which, incidentally (not unlike most other clerical texts), didn’t speak all too favourably of women; the fact that most of the artists, organisers, record company owners, etc., in this culture are (1) white, and (2) male - these sort of things need actual addressing.
This - this is a fetish, and it feels more ‘feel-good’ than anything positively substantial.
[Read: *not* a call to depoliticise and ‘just enjoy the music man’; pointing to what smells like bullshit.]
+Simon Klein so what do you suggest? How should we live? What should we idealize? What should we do about being white? should we just check our privilidge and try to be more miserable as a form of equality? Should we be more hateful? more isolated?
Suggest? A wee bit less sampling of didgeridoos or recitations of the Vedanta texts especially if you’re a white dude from, say, London (heck and maybe even a moratorium on samples from The Matrix).
How should we live? I don’t know - has a lot more to do with ecology and philosophy than music festivals though.
What should we do about being white? If one is white, maybe learn about both imperial and colonial histories, from a variety of perspectives. Putting on a native American headdress and listening to psy sampling indigenous music/culture is probably less forthcoming on the whole cultural healing front than, I dunno, talking to indigenous peoples?
As to what should we idealise? IMHO-very little, if anything. Dreaming is nice, and hope is fundamental, but idealising a post-racist world by engaging in a fetish of the indigenous, the feminine, the , is essentialism at its core, and comes across like self-congratulatory, wishful thinking, sealed by holding hands together: mhhmhhhh - definitely smells like BS.
(One might even argue that fanatical idealisation is rather at fault in a lot of these aforementioned problems.)
I don’t follow your last three Qs.
(:
Simon Klein Thanks for the elaborate answer! It did arise a few questions in me though. One thing is how you seem to imply to stay with your own culture (a white dude from london shouldnt sample didgeridoo sound much etc). Could you elaborate on that point? I dont see the reason. I can see how you would not like this kind of behaviour but I cant see a valid reason to actually go against it.
You also say as a white person you should look into your race/cultural/regional history. I agree, sure, you should learn and a general knoweledge of history is probably a necessary basis but why should I know the history of all the bad my predecessors have done (if thats what you are implying)? I am not responsible for what my cultural past has done and neither are the current descendents of the victims also victim of me. I am in no debt. I agree certanly that putting on a headdress wont make you better but isnt it more about aesthetics?(I'm not sure on that point myself).
Another point I'd like some insight on is your statement that hope is fundamental. Isn't hope a distraction? An illusion, something that might even keep people from obtaining what they hope for? (please, give me perspective. Perhaps you meant that it is fundamental as in, integrated in every day life; not a comment on it's value).
As a last point, I would like to add that you do seem to point to some BS points but not all of them and the general Idea of this festival is not just hedonistic but also about spreading awareness (another damned bandwagon though) and trying to share views on ecology and philosophy and it certanly isn't a perfect way but I dont see any better ways to spread this kind of stuff beyond the academia whose subject matter it is. These are the kind of people trying (actually trying, not half-arsed agreeing) to bring down CO2 emissions, opening people to new viewpoints and spreading happiness. Sure, it has a lot of gullibility and thats a straight entrance for BS but your effort seems to be directed towards the whole spirit of these people, not support of the good things and seperation of the bad.
Thanks. (the last 3 Q's were rhetorical)
+Maurits Heya.
We’re defying the trend with most YT comments here (how has this not turned into a flamewar!?). :^)
So, while I don’t want to punt you off here, getting into a longer discussion would probably best suit moving away from TH-cam comments, but hey, let’s have a crack at it. (Feel free to PM me.)
(Ordered in relation to the points mentioned in your prev. comment:)
1. Minimising the incorporation of cultures of indigenous peoples musically via sampling, by an almost exclusively white, male cohort (producers/DJs), for a mostly white audience is not what I want multiculturalism to be. A similar case (fairly well documented academically too actually) is the (capitalist) consumption of food of Others (indigenous, ‘Oriental’, or generally non-Anglo-Saxon/European) as a high point of multiculturalism. I mean, yea, it’s pretty awesome having a good Thai, Turk, and Indian restaurant around the corner, and having them staffed and run by actual Thais, Turks, and Indians, but if the vast majority of multicultural exposure begins and ends with say, (in the Indian example) the occasional marriage between Hollywood and Bollywood, and an Indian curry once every few months, I’d put my hand up and say: that’s *not* actually what I want multiculturalism to *just* be. My comment is in line with this sentiment.
2. Cultural appropriation of the Other, *without* historical awareness or sensitivity - this follows on from the sentiments of (1). The historical aspect is rather paramount. I feel that generational guilt isn’t particularly productive (guilt and ressentiment, I would wager, are generally rather unproductive emotions), but, that said, it would be similarly poor form to ignore the actual historical realities which were violently forced upon indigenous populations during the imperial and colonial eras (and, hey, still today, as generational echoes, or, outright continuations of colonialist policies). You are perhaps in no direct debt yourself, but you owe it to understand why there are such gaps, even 50-100 years on in the domains of life expectancies, juvenile illnesses, education, dietary health, etc. None of these are easy things to broach, yet alone solve. I do, however, feel that there is an obligation to learn about our own histories, because they are crossed with - and often our situation today is arguably improved by the deterioration of - other peoples. td;dr: think twice before you don an Indian headdress as a white dude from Mississippi… you’re not “in touch with nature” because you borrowed (cough stole) from an indigenous culture, which, incidentally, was butchered by your racial ancestors. Maybe that’s not the best tl;dr, but heck. (Also, what’s probably also worth questioning here is whole mantra of “being in touch with nature” - it sounds like trying to assuage some kinda of ecological guilt, and ultimately, an anthropomorphism; nature doesn’t give a shit about us; our environment has no value in and of itself - it only has value to us in our eyes, for us, to sustain us, etc. … something we should probably be more honest about - George Carlin’s ‘Save the Planet’ skit comes to mind here, hehe.)
3. Hope - yup, integrated into life. Comment was more meant in line with, say, the philosophical questions of “what can I know; what can I hope for tomorrow”. I think it’s better to dream, and to hope, than to idealise. Idealising: regard or represent as perfect or better than reality. Hope fuels dreams, and might lead an actual better reality, whereas idealising to me is closer to bullshitting - but hey, semantics?
I like how you separated this into something incorporated into life vs its value for life btw. (:
4. As for the festivals: hedonism itself here isn’t so much an issue for me, as is the self-congratulatory (white) hippy aspect of the culture. In this, and the context of your Qs, I find two things relevant: (A) the stuff above, in relation to our histories, which include racism, sexism, colonialism, etc, and so forth, and (B) energy balance or flow analysis of a doof/psy music festival … all compared to the rather self-congratulatory thinking going on at them. As a participant in this culture myself, I would be in agreement that most folks at these venues are - generally speaking - more tolerant to ‘non-traditional’ sexualities and genders, as well as more open to other cultures, as well as new and different ideas, however, from an ecological perspective alone they’re pretty crap (again, an energy flow analysis - think of the carbon footprint to fly DJs and producers in; the fossil fuels used to power generators for the sound systems, lasers, etc.).
That’s ofc. not to say that we shouldn’t do it - I don’t think the value of something *has* to be immediately tied to its cost (ecologically, or otherwise); but, and similarly, wearing a tie-die T-shirt, listening to psy, sitting in some weird formation holding hands and taking LSD really doesn’t either in and of itself relate to, or instil, a better world.
I guess my tl;dr out of all this would be to say: go fucking pick up a philosophy or ecology book in between your last and next music festival before engaging in more self-congratulatory hedonism (again, hedonism in and of itself isn’t so much the BS part for me here).
/loosely structured braindump response. (:
+Simon Klein I dont mind the format of the response. It seems to be in line with my thought structure :)
So your main criticism here is the people being aware of being somewhat more knoweledgeable of certan problems and subsequently being self-congratulatory about it which besides being just bad in itself also contradicts the effect this awareness should have? Now I havent talked with too many people like this on festivals but I do live in a community a bit like this but I guess mine must be a special place as it is officially a student housing for a celebrated nature science university so the high level of actual knoweledge of ecology is probably more connected to that fact than the hippy-ness.
I have to disagree slightly with your first point on didgeridoo sampling being a form of multiculturalism. Perhaps in situations like this the didgeridoo sampling is used as a fake medium of connecting with indigenous people in which case I do indeed smell the BS but something like didgeridoo sampling is also a very logical thing to doo as it is an amazing and very unique sound. (your implications were probably not this direct though)
On your second point all I can say is that I am probably the kind of person you are talking about; so much absorbed in my culture that I cant imagine the repercussions on the current generation of the victims. About the indian headdress; I might be naive but I dont think people actually wear it to convince themselves they are a part of an indigenous tribe, just an aesthetic choice, like the Bindi also common on this type of festival.
your view seems very pessimistic about this crowdand like I said, the crowd I compare it by might very well be a seperate case so I guess I can only hope (oh ha ha) I'm not as wrong as you make it seem :)
last song name?