dvd-album francisco varela
1) MONTE GRANDE: available order now!
2) MIND AND LIFE: release intended for summer 2012
3) FRANCISCO CISCO PANCHO: NEW order now!
4) PROJECTS: release intended in 2014

4 dvds on francisco varela, code-free, to use it everywhere on this planet... Every DVD will be available as a single DVD, but also as a whole album. all DVDs will be made with a film stop function and with web links and rom links, useful for students, teachers and other people who are interested in Francisco Varela's life and work. more infos here

     'monte grande' is the first and basic dvd of the album with francisco varela,
      with lots of specials, code-free, to use everywhere.

    order now









1) MONTE GRANDE: available now

  • Film Monte Grande 80 min. (original) english, spanish, german and french spoken
  • subtitled in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, greek.
  • Scene selection
  • Cinema trailer 2 min, in english, subtitled in German, French, Italian, Spanish, greek.
  • Making Empanadas: The whole process of making empanadas in Monte Grande, from the beginning, with additional footage, which is not in the film.
  • About 2 hours of additional interviews of all of the film's participants. Most of them by Francisco in Ojaj and Paris: about autopoiesis, knowledge and wisdom, ethics, spirituality, meditation, death.
  • film stop function, to use this material when you watch the film. for details see 'special' 1
  • CV's of all participants.
  • Info on the different contents and places.
  • web links and rom links. for details see 'special' 2 and 3



    • 2) MIND AND LIFE: release intended for summer 2012

    • Film Mind and Life 50 min. original in english, subtitled in German
    • About 3 hours of additional interviews of all of the film's participants. Most of them by Francisco Varela, His Holiness, Thubten Jinpa and Allan Wallace.
    • A part of the ML-Madison-conference, with 4 cameras at the same time! Not a quad split, but the possibility for the dvd viewer to jump from camera to camera. For that I prefer the part with Antoine Lutz who presented Francisco's work.
    • CV's of all participants.
    • Info on the different contents and places.
    • web links and rom links. for details see 'special' 2 and 3




    3) FRANCISCO CISCO PANCHO order now!

    this dvd contains illustrated interviews. all interviews on this dvd are subtitled into english, spanish, french and german.
    • autobiography of francisco varela from february 2001, captured at home in Monte Grande, spoken in spanish.
    • interview with francisco varela about the third and the first person experience, spoken in english.
    • interviews about francisco varela with his holiness the dalai lama, tsoknyi rinpoche, matthieu ricard, michel bitbol, natalie depraz, joan halifax a.o.
    • interviews of family members, relatives and Francisco's close friends, linked to his life story, with a lot of nice anekdotes of Francisco's life.
    • Bruno Latour's tribute to Francisco.
    • Francisco's poems.



      4) PROJECTS: release intended in 2014
      • Projects of Francisco and his students, scientist friends and artists, including interesting projects which where not developed, but remain as important or intresting ideas for the future... This DVD should show Francisco's influence on different cultural, scientific and artistic fields, and onthe field of education.
      • CV's of all participants.
      • Info on the different contents and places.
      • web links and rom links. for details see 'special' 2 and 3


      specials of this dvds

      SPECIAL 1: FILM STOP function (only on dvd (1) monte grande): If you watch the film, you will have the possibility to stop the film at several positions, to instantly get more interviews and info on the current subject, people (CV) and places. you can continue the film any time from the position in which you stopped it.

      SPECIAL 2: WEB-LINKS: all these DVDs include web links, which you can use on a computer. If you click on a web link, your computer will start your browser automatically and will go to the specific URL, under the condition that you are online. it works with both Macintosh and windows if you activated, resp. installed the DVD@ccess. this programme is still on every mac. windows users will find this programme with an introduction in the rom folder of the dvd. you also can download it from here.
      introduction download: about_dvd@ccess.pdf (64 kb)
      programme download: dvdccess.exe (1,4 mb)
      all urls of these dvds will be forwarded and updated through this website. if you want to see the current url addresses, please click here for web link updates

      SPECIAL 3: ROM-LINKS: On all of the DVDs, there will be a ROM-part with several documents, such as press kit, photographs, articles etc., which you can print out. Some of these documents are also available when you watch the DVD on your computer. With the same small programme as for the web-link activation (DVD@ccess) you can click on the info and it will automatically start the programme you need for the document (or Word or Adobe Acrobat reader or Quicktime etc.)
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