Luis DaSilva - "The Cementary Club Video"

The cemetery club video is a very short video with a duration of only about a minute or so. However, I could still observed in the 1 minute video, how people can make a good use of the space in the cemetery for different events. For this video, I found very interesting to see this group of people - most of them in their old ages - getting together for this occasional meetings to discuss their ideas and opinions on topics such as current events, science lectures, literature and other subjects of their interest. I found even more interesting to see that this group of people would go every Saturday on summer days to the local cemetery to have this meetings. The cemetery in general, can be for many people a place where you go to morn for their past loved ones instead of been a place where you can go to have a recreational moment. A lot of people can think of the use of the cemetery for many purpose, but for this group this place was a place where they could meet their friends once a week - on a warm weather - to talk about their common interest and concerns. The old people in this video, many struggles with loneliness and the purpose of this meetings was to bring them together to share the similarities and concerns. The cemetery in this occasion, I believe it was a place of comfort for many of them in the video, simply because of the fact that the majority were almost at the end of their life and actually meeting once a week their friends at the cemetery would make them feel that they are not alone. The task every week was to bring chairs and different topics for discussion. Every meeting they would accommodate under a nice shaded tree in an open area on the cemetery. It's nice to see that we can make good use of a cemetery for different occasions as well in the same time still maintaining the respect for the dead.