Nature’s beauty can be easily missed — but not through Louie Schwartzberg’s lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day. (Filmed at TEDxSF.)
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The Film Maker: Louie Schwartzberg
Louie Schwartzberg is an award-winning producer, director and cinematographer whose notable career spans more than three decades providing breathtaking imagery for feature films, television shows, documentaries and commercials.
As the only filmmaker in the world who has been shooting time-lapse 24/7 continuously for well over three decades, Schwartzberg is a visual artist breaking barriers, connecting with audiences, and telling stories that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people and places.
Learn more about Louie and Moving Art at www.movingart.com.
The Narrator: Brother David Steindl-Rast
Long before Oprah started millions of women keeping gratitude journals, Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Catholic Benedictine monk, was writing about gratefulness as the heart of prayer and the most liberating way to live in joy and grace. Although he has many fine scholastic credentials, he’d never be described only as a head person. He is also a heart person who revels in playfulness and the lightness of being. These two qualities along with his high regard for imagination give his writings on spirituality a special tang. A fine example of this is his book on proverbs, those short and pithy bearers of wisdom from around the world. In these perilous times, Brother David has made a significant contribution by leaving his mark on the quality of interfaith dialogue. His intensive and far-reaching work has also helped to deepen and enrich monastic life.
At present, Brother David serves a worldwide Network for Grateful Living (ANG*L), through www.Gratefulness.org, an interactive website with several thousand participants daily from more than 240 countries.