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- S.

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S

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tactile textures of touch.

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Taste the bristles

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of breath from a donkey
in a concrete coffin

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on the brim of recovery from abuse.

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Come closer,

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step into their shade.

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Slowly. Listen.

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Approach these ancient beasts

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to donkeys act.

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We move with half knowledge

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and intuition, smelling
our way to destinations,

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serendipitously encountering
strangers who guide

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and redirect

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unfolding destinations

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- Looking good.

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- Heaven. Welcome to heaven.

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You wouldn't believe the sled.
I know. I saw photographs.

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Here we go. Now,

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here we go.

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Back down

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one step and no one step, no

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- Uncertain.

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Next side. There we
go. Frightened, afraid.

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Hey, a scream, not of pity,

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but as an eternal bray

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phrase, communicate complex sounds,

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primal instincts to understand.

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Listen to their language.

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- There we go.
- There we go. A new

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- Home.

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A capacity to affect, to be affected

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is an invitation into deferential contact

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with beasts of burden.

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A made in the neck says more than words.

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Okay. Why use words to
explain in an atmosphere

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of chains, belts and braces.

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Ropes and bricks.

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In a knockdown box, ENC clothes,

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and fold and embrace a donkey.

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- You get me some? I'll do the next.

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- The real. A mechanical movement

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of a creature twitches
in the surgeon's gondola.

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A duration of direct experience is

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- Okay.

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- A mechanical mixture

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of technology with nature.

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Grading breaths, nostrils, flared

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to the pulsating beats of a machine

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that breathes life into a donkey

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inside a theater of care.

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A pastor on a pale day,

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a blue gray speaks with colors, tones,

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and shades of hazy.

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Purple brace,

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a symphony of a thousand bras echo

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through a chamber of dainty.

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Trots on straw and concrete floors.

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- Come

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up.

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Come up.

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Come.

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Come on.

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- And donkeys. Walk to a dead end

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with several ways in and no way out.

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- Come here.

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- Heard it. Guided gelded.

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These donkeys have the will
of curiosity on their side.

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- Come on. Come

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on,

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Danny.

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Come on.

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Oh Jesus. Ranger camera

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- As they laugh.

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Whale and shriek

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and harmonies of acoustic communication.

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Where do these donkeys come
from? How did they get here?

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What is this place? A refuge,

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a retirement home for donkeys.

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This one is blind.

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The other one was stabbed by teenagers

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playing a game of stick.

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The knife in the donkey,

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A scapegoat, 400 blows

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on a donkey's flesh.

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The cruel radiance of what
is, is sometimes unspeakable

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bear witness

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frozen by a look.

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Only implicated in this

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perception that takes possession of me.

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Do donkeys act

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burned, beaten, abandoned donkeys?

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Look back at us humans

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with indifference and bray.

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- So you're just taking this all down,

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taking back to soul Eugene, is it?

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- That's right. Just basically trying

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to find a foot handle, first of all.

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- Yeah.

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- ERs use knives and pliers, hooks

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and razors to cut directly into
tissue and tendons of nerves

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and severed feet to undo.

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Seven years of neglect concentrated
on the hoos of a donkey

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plunge into the intrinsic
range of unfamiliar expressions

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inside this wild sanctuary
that offers a syn

00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:09.260
glimpse into the reveries melodies

00:25:09.260 --> 00:25:12.170
and rhapsody of a great donkey orchestra.

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Sin close to the trumpet
as it pulsates into

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a thick brew, a brute braise, estranged,

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braise, mingle, nourish

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and gyrate myriad sounds.

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Internally stirring
facets of air in the chest

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and animate donkey's.

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Tongues

00:26:03.320 --> 00:26:04.525
like rabbi's.

00:26:04.525 --> 00:26:06.830
Laughter, gurgling from the guts of a pack

00:26:06.830 --> 00:26:09.020
of species whose nature is wander.

00:26:09.020 --> 00:26:12.080
Rome in wild Mediterranean lands.

00:26:13.550 --> 00:26:15.050
But for most of us,

00:26:15.050 --> 00:26:18.620
those living lands are
now posters on walls

00:26:18.620 --> 00:26:22.100
and donkeys remain enclosed
as images on screens

00:26:48.930 --> 00:26:53.760
today, two large donkeys
lost their coats in a parlor

00:26:53.760 --> 00:26:55.680
of groomers on beauty patrol

00:26:58.380 --> 00:27:02.305
in an effort to control
mites, lice, and flees.

00:27:03.325 --> 00:27:04.625
It was a hairy massacre.

00:27:16.455 --> 00:27:20.195
- Oh, you can give me
my glamor assistant come

00:28:57.645 --> 00:29:00.335
- Groomed, cleaned and dried.

00:29:04.500 --> 00:29:08.070
Bazars cousin wonders,
what are these people?

00:29:08.070 --> 00:29:09.240
What are they doing to me?

00:29:16.980 --> 00:29:21.390
Bra braise flashes of patience, fade,

00:29:30.810 --> 00:29:34.015
and asked questions
without giving answers.

00:29:51.040 --> 00:29:54.520
The Anthropocene has arrived,

00:29:57.250 --> 00:29:59.770
ushering species in need of protection

00:30:00.760 --> 00:30:03.430
and closing them into sanctuaries of care.

00:30:06.040 --> 00:30:08.315
Let the sounds narrate the story.

00:31:39.820 --> 00:31:43.120
Hostile snow summons. Winter warmth,

00:31:53.890 --> 00:31:57.640
cradled by the solace
of long life partners.

00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:01.900
Embracing and bitter
cold standing upright,

00:32:02.740 --> 00:32:03.640
side by side

00:32:25.270 --> 00:32:27.250
touch the whisper of the wind

00:32:50.900 --> 00:32:54.290
troughs prepared for the arrival
of hungry donkeys, waiting

00:32:54.290 --> 00:32:55.640
to fill their bellies.

00:34:36.785 --> 00:34:38.585
In a canteen of howls

00:34:38.585 --> 00:34:43.340
and whistles, we wait impatiently, eager

00:34:43.340 --> 00:34:46.310
to stomp, glide, smack and slurp.

00:34:47.450 --> 00:34:47.960
Lunchtime,

00:36:00.120 --> 00:36:02.645
pleasurable palate stimulate dancing ears.

00:37:39.445 --> 00:37:44.100
A landscape of hidden wounds
that can be traced, healed,

00:37:45.930 --> 00:37:46.560
and felt

00:37:53.040 --> 00:37:53.520
bodies.

00:37:53.520 --> 00:37:54.090
Remember,

00:38:01.200 --> 00:38:03.545
is it possible to tremble inside

00:39:25.870 --> 00:39:27.580
a stereotype of stubbornness?

00:39:29.525 --> 00:39:33.645
Practice caution. Who
enjoys going to the dentist?

00:39:35.425 --> 00:39:35.645
- Boy.

00:40:04.035 --> 00:40:05.765
Yeah. Oh,

00:41:18.325 --> 00:41:18.745
father.

00:41:23.530 --> 00:41:25.540
- A lived dental experience

00:41:28.570 --> 00:41:29.860
as an alien encounter

00:41:38.780 --> 00:41:41.690
flashes out, attends

00:41:44.060 --> 00:41:46.605
to vibrations of grinding enamel,

00:43:03.295 --> 00:43:08.135
a listening station
gathering, interpreting

00:43:10.405 --> 00:43:12.655
wild sounds with attuned deers.

00:43:18.595 --> 00:43:18.815
- Mmm.

00:43:37.475 --> 00:43:41.420
- The density of spring descends
on perched ears of donkeys

00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:46.850
that stand on concrete and
lay lazily in the dirt.

00:44:36.030 --> 00:44:40.470
A surprise greets the grower
who touches an invisible wound.

00:45:11.310 --> 00:45:13.350
The introduction of a feral donkey

00:45:15.030 --> 00:45:18.540
to a half wild herd is
fraught with carnal ambiguity.

00:45:43.555 --> 00:45:47.335
- Good boy.
- Good boy.

00:45:47.335 --> 00:45:49.590
Activating a dormant dynamism.

00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:54.725
A brute frenzy of speculative vibrancy.

00:49:51.135 --> 00:49:55.570
- Hey, what's up? What's
up? Are you freezing? Hmm.

00:50:24.010 --> 00:50:24.190
Hey,

00:50:42.020 --> 00:50:44.330
you see left to be moved
in to a different group

00:53:30.540 --> 00:53:31.590
- Running in stride.

00:53:31.590 --> 00:53:33.600
All four Whos hit the ground?

00:53:37.020 --> 00:53:41.925
A locomotion cinema is a kinetic animal,

00:53:52.575 --> 00:53:56.405
enveloping snorts, darting donkeys.

00:53:56.405 --> 00:53:58.045
Flash of voluptuous gestalt

00:54:03.115 --> 00:54:07.085
live recordings musicality everywhere.

00:55:29.155 --> 00:55:32.525
Anxiously awaiting attuned,

00:55:33.885 --> 00:55:36.705
bustling bodies dancing, flesh, ready

00:55:36.705 --> 00:55:40.290
to burst the ground rumbling,
swirling metamorphosis.

00:55:40.290 --> 00:55:44.670
A feverish stampede of
kindred flux unfolds swarms

00:55:44.670 --> 00:55:48.180
to counter the slumber stupor
of confinement during winter.

00:55:48.180 --> 00:55:48.845
Inside a barn

00:56:09.570 --> 00:56:12.750
absorbed, nibbling the nap of a neck,

00:56:14.970 --> 00:56:18.480
a rupture, startled,

00:56:20.340 --> 00:56:22.200
unexpectedly recognized.

00:56:25.180 --> 00:56:29.680
I stare absorbed

00:56:32.620 --> 00:56:34.120
the donkey allows itself

00:56:34.120 --> 00:56:39.120
to be looked at, but it looks at me.

00:56:40.390 --> 00:56:45.390
At you. I see myself seen naked.

00:56:45.850 --> 00:56:47.375
Under the gaze of a donkey,

00:58:11.110 --> 00:58:14.680
an umbilical cord binds
a fo into total contact

00:58:14.680 --> 00:58:17.975
with a sensuous bond to a
life on a rainy spring day,

00:59:03.425 --> 00:59:07.805
an innate choreography animal life.

01:01:34.845 --> 01:01:38.755
First steps, stands,

01:01:40.765 --> 01:01:42.755
moves, falls

01:02:02.075 --> 01:02:04.435
a fall, walks immediately after birth.

01:02:06.215 --> 01:02:07.850
An instinct to survive.

01:02:10.370 --> 01:02:13.430
The smell of mother's milk
is the essence of life.

01:03:24.900 --> 01:03:29.610
Radiant darkness offers
a gift of silent nudges,

01:03:33.115 --> 01:03:34.350
amplified wonder,

01:03:37.230 --> 01:03:39.365
and back scratches on a metal gate

01:04:50.850 --> 01:04:55.680
playing acoustic music
while ghost donkeys nest in

01:04:55.680 --> 01:04:56.340
nighttime

01:05:47.260 --> 01:05:50.230
to exhale, rest

01:05:51.820 --> 01:05:56.500
and nuzzle each other
as nestled companions

01:06:26.770 --> 01:06:27.820
to donkey's dream.

01:06:45.400 --> 01:06:46.375
How do donkeys sleep?

01:07:47.290 --> 01:07:50.830
A security guard walks on
the eve of a midsummers night

01:07:53.620 --> 01:07:57.430
through a donkey labyrinth,
deflecting, unseen predators,

01:07:57.430 --> 01:07:59.530
and acting as a surrogate parent

01:08:00.790 --> 01:08:03.460
to feed a fo whose mother is missing.

01:08:20.360 --> 01:08:25.135
- Come on in. Come on in.

01:08:35.575 --> 01:08:37.615
Coco. Coco.

01:08:37.615 --> 01:08:42.320
- Come on. Come on, man.

01:08:43.910 --> 01:08:48.085
Come on, Rosie. Come on.

01:08:49.805 --> 01:08:54.325
Come on. Come on. Come on.

01:09:20.315 --> 01:09:22.285
- Good. Go. Okay.

01:10:28.610 --> 01:10:33.320
- Frozen by a look only
implicated in this perception

01:10:33.320 --> 01:10:34.760
that takes possession of me.

01:10:36.320 --> 01:10:38.990
Aware of being watched is presence.

01:10:42.350 --> 01:10:45.050
The gaze of another is
an awareness of self.

01:10:46.550 --> 01:10:48.650
A perception of perception.

01:10:50.480 --> 01:10:52.550
A sonorous encounter is kinship.

01:10:54.320 --> 01:10:58.880
The beast looks at us as an
object of a startling stare.

01:11:02.885 --> 01:11:03.385
It senses.