I've watched three documentaries in the last couple weeks that I thought were really good. Slay The

I've watched three documentaries in the last couple weeks that I thought were really good.

Slay The Dragon, about the national fight against gerrymandering. We got a few wins a couple years ago, if the courts let the wins stand.

Beyond the Visible, an exciting film about the work of a stunning artist, Hilma af Klimt, whose work was hidden from the public for about 100 years. She may eventually be recognized as Sweden's greatest painter ever. I saw her work at the Guggenheim and it was amazing. When this crisis ends, I might go to Sweden just to see it again.

The Biggest Little Farm, a world class cameraman and his food blogger wife give up their old lives to move to a decrepit farm in Southern California and over 7 years turn it into a model of traditional farming (and make a really beautifully shot doc about it — which is why the husband's profession is relevant here). It's great to imagine farms like that all over. It's great to see it serving as habitat, though they never address the key question: What's the calorie-per-acre productivity? No doubt we could have a lot more farms like that but we have a lot of people in this world. No doubt our industrial farming is in part driven by the fact that we just have so damn many people and we have to max out calorie production. Could all our food really be made that way? Still, would be nice if a lot more of it was. There's obviously room for that. Anyway, it's also a nice story of two people making themselves a little paradise.