Joel Tauber

Seeking Pasture is a movie and art installation by Joel Tauber about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us.

It’s day 21 of my journey as an urban shepherd, and I’m growing very attached to Sarah and Rebecca. Here’s an update from the project, Seeking Pasture, which will become a movie and art installation: seekingpasture.net/2025/11/13/d...

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Seeking Pasture is a movie and art installation by Joel Tauber about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us.

It’s day 14 of my journey as an urban shepherd with Sarah and Rebecca.

The project will become a movie and art installation called Seeking Pasture about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us:
seekingpasture.net/2025/11/04/d...

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My film, Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing, is screening tomorrow (Nov 7) at 12:45 pm at the Yathakatha International Film & Literature Festival at SVKM’s Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Arts, Science and Commerce in Mumbai

The movie is nominated for Best Experimental Film

www.yathakatha.com

Seeking Pasture Seeking Pasture is a movie and art installation by Joel Tauber about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us.

And I find myself wondering, as Sarah and Rebecca seemingly are as well, why all those things are necessary.

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Seeking Pasture will be a movie and art installation: seekingpasture.net

It's been wonderful exploring the city with Sarah and Rebecca. Looking at everything with fresh eyes—sort of like what it felt like when I was a dad of very young kids. They are startled by the cars and other machines that we encounter, including the many lawnmowers and leaf blowers.

And I’m with them for every minute, guiding them, shepherding them; and linked to them via their woolen halters. We begin each day—early!—by grazing in the yard in our home. Then we start walking, searching for additional pasture.

Joel Tauber has become an urban shepherd to raise conversation about our relationships to our grass, yards, and ecosystems.

It's day twelve of my journey as an urban shepherd with Sarah and Rebecca. It's been an intense and beautiful process so far! Sarah and Rebecca are seemingly always hungry. They want to eat for 5-6 hours a day, at least!

Seeking Pasture Seeking Pasture is a movie and art installation by Joel Tauber about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us.

Seeking Pasture will be a movie and art installation about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us. Stay tuned as the project continues to develop!

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seekingpasture.net

We only ask that you keep any chemical fertilizers and pesticides away. We wouldn’t want to hurt Sarah or Rebecca, after all! God only knows what impact we’ve had on our environment and our collective health already.

If you live within walking distance to us, here in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, consider this lawn mowing alternative. I will happily walk on over to you, with Sarah and Rebecca.

So, cast your lawn mowers and leaf blowers aside! Who needs those noisy, polluting things anyway! Let’s go old-school and think, anew, about our relationship to grass and to our environment.

Seeking Pasture is a movie and art installation by Joel Tauber about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us.

My new sheep companions, Sarah and Rebecca, are seeking pasture. And they would love to graze on the grass in your yards and to nibble on other yummy tiny green plants that they find there—plants that we too easily dismiss as weeds.

Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing. Trailer. An exploration of the ancient Jewish practice of chavruta (heated discourse and constructive debate) and a portrait of one of its great practitioners: the Gaon (genius)…

My film, Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing, is screening at the 2025 Alibag Short Film Festival. The festival is happening on October 5, from 8 am to 5 pm, at Sandy’s Hotel in Alibag, India.

Here’s the trailer: vimeo.com/joeltauber/r...

Watch Sick Amour: A Love Story | Prime Video A celebration of the forlorn and lonely Tree that Joel Tauber adopts in the middle of a giant parking lot. Filmed over the course of 18 years, the movie paints a multi-faceted portrait of the Tree via a series of interviews with experts in different fields; while it chronicles Tauber's efforts to improve the Tree's life.

My first feature film, Sick-Amour: A Love Story, is streaming on Amazon and Vimeo OTT. And I would love it if you watched the movie.

It’s a documentary and love story that celebrates the forlorn and lonely Tree that I adopted in the middle of a giant parking lot.

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So grotesque. The rise of antisemitism is appalling.

A really important article. Empathy is foundational to leading an ethical life. If we continue to destruct whatever empathic and ethical tendencies and structures that we have, then we are collectively doomed. We have to build a society built on ethics, and we have a long way to go.

Thank you for this really important article. Empathy is foundational to leading an ethical life. If we continue to destruct whatever empathic and ethical tendencies and structures that we have, then we are collectively doomed. We have to build a society built on ethics, and we have a long way to go.

California Officials Criticize Trump’s National Guard Deployment to LA Protests State and local officials warned that the National Guard’s presence could escalate protests, while Republican lawmakers blamed state leadership for the clashes.

Many California officials have condemned President Trump’s move to send National Guard members to Los Angeles.

Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing. Trailer. An exploration of the ancient Jewish practice of chavruta (heated discourse and constructive debate) and a portrait of one of its great practitioners: the Gaon (genius)…

Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing is premiering at the Pune Short Film Festival. The festival is happening June 2-7 at Lokayat on Karve Road in Pune, India.

Here's the trailer for the project:
vimeo.com/joeltauber/r...

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#discourse #debate #arguing #chavruta #conversation

In the film, I visit the grave of my great-great-great-great-grandfather, the Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Aszód (1796-1866), who was once the head rabbi of Hungary. I engage in an immersive form of chavruta dialog with him. And I seek a greater understanding of this form of communication.

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Not to win an argument or to prove that a particular view is correct, but rather a methodology of talking—together—about ideas over a prolonged period of time. For the sake of learning. For the sake of ethics. And for the sake of the truth.

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Joel Tauber’s film and art installation, Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing, explores the ancient Jewish practice of chavruta: heated discourse and constructive debate.

I've been thinking a lot about how we can engage in real conversation in our time of deep division. So, I've made a project about it. It's a film and art installation focused on the ancient Jewish practice of chavruta: heated discourse and constructive debate.

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3 art project highlights from my visit to NYC yesterday:
• Steve McQueen at Dia Chelsea
• Thomas Demand at Mathew Marks Gallery
• Max Neuhaus’ Times Square sound installation (1977)

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This is repugnant and terrifying

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Big turnout for the #handsoff rally in Winston-Salem, NC yesterday. It was so encouraging to see so many people there. Yes, our democracy is under assault. Yes, there’s big trouble on many fronts. But there’s also hope. We can turn things around. #democracynotoligarchy #resist

Big rally in Winston-Salem, NC yesterday. #democracynotoligarchy #resist

Hands Off! Winston-Salem, NC Fights Back · Hands Off **Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them.** We are fighting back! They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and da...

Rally tomorrow in Winston-Salem from 2-4 pm. #democracynotoligarchy
#resist

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Demonstration on Green Street Pedestrian Bridge · Forsyth County Democratic Party Banners have been made to hold up on the Green Street pedestrian bridge. Bring your own signs if you want (make them big enough to be seen by cars on Salem Parkway), wave at commuters to remind them ...

Rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Monday at 4:30. Event organized by the Forsyth County Democratic Party. On the Green Street pedestrian bridge overlooking the Interstate 40 highway:
www.mobilize.us/forsythcount...

Demonstration on Green Street Pedestrian Bridge · Forsyth County Democratic Party Banners have been made to hold up on the Green Street pedestrian bridge. Bring your own signs if you want (make them big enough to be seen by cars on Salem Parkway), wave at commuters to remind them ...

Yes, here’s an updated link:
www.mobilize.us/forsythcount...