goodnews july 2025 – good to see

Ergot – the story of a parasitic fungus (1958)
A scientific British movie with great visuals

An open horizon by Firelei Báez
This 8 minute movie with its stunning renderings shows the work of biologist Carl Linnaeus and its racist overtones under a new light.

Ochre Sunrise, by Keenan DesPlanques, 25 minutes
At a pre-historic pigment mine, researchers glimpse our earliest moments in the Americas. In this documentary, we are taken to Sunrise, Wyoming, where an orchre mine has been excavated to yield some 3000 artefacts going back 16000 years.

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