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"Ten Thousand Things" is a Buddhist expression representing the dynamic interconnection and simultaneous unity and diversity of everything in the universe.

Corbin Harney praying in Carlos DeMenezes' TRESPASSING: Where Turtle Island intersects with Kazakhstan, Japan, & the Rest of the World

This excerpt from Carlos DeMenezes' 2005 documentary, Trespassing, of Shoshone Spiritual Leader Corbin Harney praying, juxtaposed with film footage of some of the repeated atomic bombings in the American Southwest, is a powerful reminder that Japanese Hibakusha are connected with global Hibakusha in the United States, Kazakhstan, the Pacific Region, and throughout the world.

Widely censored at many film festivals>, Trespassing premiered in Australia in 2007 at the Byron Bay Film Festival and won awards at the Festival Raiz La Imagen,VIII Oaxaca, Mexico; the Boston International Film Festival; the Festival De Cine De Granada Video in Spain; the Santa Cruz (California) International Film Festival; the Berkeley Film Festival; and the Arizona International Film Festival.

DeMenezes' compelling documentary features Japanese radiation survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who speak of global healing and forgiveness at the Nevada Test Site, and the film shows the extraordinary efforts and risks that indigenous activists, in solidarity with Hibakusha, atomic veterans and global environmentalist, nuclear abolitionists, and peace activists take, to protect sacred lands, the air, the water, and people from desecration by further weapons testing and nuclear waste.

A work of profound dimensions, it took DeMenezes, who directed, produced, shot and edited the film, ten years to complete this project, using borrowed and donated labor and equipment. Trespassing is an elegiac examination of the deadly controversies intersecting land rights, uranium mining, nuclear testing, and the disposal of nuclear waste – issues with global significance and resonance.

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