Lynne Wycherley * comments on the film directed by Marc Khanne
October 2016
"In the sensitive hands of award-winning environmentalist Marc Khanne, we meet person after person stripped of the daily life so many of us take for granted"
Unseen, unheard, until now, a new class of refugee is one of the growing, tragic aspects of society's unquestioning dive into mobile/, smart, technologies. Tablets'icons can mesmerise. Gaze deeper, and we may glimpse a haunting face: the " electrosensitive " that any of us, a stunning lilm suggests, may soon become. "It could happen to anyone " says Philippe, a soft-spoken former IT teacher who has lost everything - his work, his home, his access to everyday life. He huddles. with many other such refugees, in a forest in France. "It is so easy to irradiate" he says. " so difficult to escape".
In the sensitive hands of award-winning environmentalist Marc Khanne, we meet person after person stripped of the daily life so many of us take for granted. The symptoms they experience during, or after time, in places dense with WiFi, smartphones, 24-hour cordless phone transmitters, and mobile phone masts - a cacophony of RF fradio frequency] pulsed microwaves - have led to exile, or a diminished life.
Exhausted by brutal headaches, worsened, she believes. By neighbours'transmitters. Elisabeth, a nurse forced to stop work, can sleep only in her car.
Such suffering. explains Khanne, is often cast as "une peur irrationnelle" (an irrational fear) rather than the environmental illness it is rapidly proving to be. How can anyone dismiss what sufferers are saying, he emphasises, without first hearing them?
Sharing his own journey of discovery, he highlights a global trend. Sensitively paced, his film is a poetry of juxtapositions: flashing screens/dripping forest; smartphone posters/wan refugees. And outside a closed conference, sufferers hold placards of despair. In Paris, meanrvhile, an 11-year old boy, violently ill for a year, has just had brain scans and blood-tests linkins his symptoms with exposure.
Of the 'electro-sensitive, doctors contacted, only one agrees to be filmed; the others are afraid to "come out." Whistle-blowing scientist Pierre le Ruz is more candid. A former leader of radar research, he explains the 'microwave syndrome' seen in military research, including his own, mirrors today’s ’electro_sensitivity’, - a term which unhelpfully shifts the focus away from the pollution to those who are most affected by it. The mobile industry, he testifies, has adopted radar frequencies that were abandoned as too dangerous :
"même ondes pulsées, même fréquences, même symptomes" (the same pulsing waves, same frequencies, same symptoms). Filmed on the road, meanwhile, ex-
telecoms engineer Bernard continues his moving quest, like many others, for a « white zone » - an unpolluted space to relieve his headaches, dizziness, and insomnia.
Other documentaries widen the debate. With limited funding, and appreciable courage, directors Jean Hêches, and Josh del Sol, fight to make our wireless pollution visible. In Microwaves, Science & Lies (2014), a compelling investigation, Hêches reveals vast "product defence strategies" first used by tobacco giants to deadly effect. From top-level conflicts of interest, to sensitive footage on the ground, this arresting film - set partly in Sweden - raises crucial questions.
Take Back Your power (2014 ed.), meanwhile, directed by Josh del Sol, is a vital humanitarian fllm. Winner of three awards, it is a stark reminder of how fossil fuel multi-nationals can ruthlessly seize the world stage. Eloquently fllmed, and best seen in full, its exposé of wireless smart-meters, their assault on our health, and the corporate hijack behind them, is strong medicine. And an inspiration to all of us to champion far safer, less toxic ways of managing our energy.
Though insightful, these fllms rarely address the pollution's ecological risks, signalled by James Russell’s beautiful film Resonance (2012) and Katie Singer’s book Electronic Silent Spring (portal Books 2014). Nor do they highlight new peer-reviewed research on risks to our nervous system and DNA, or explore clean ways forward we might adopt, such as low-pollution retreat centres, and 'Building Biology', the international movement for non-toxic buildings. But how they open our eyes ! Before microwave faschions deepen, creating a more dangerous ‘5G’world, each of us needs to view these astonishing films.
* : Lynne Wycherley is a poet with six published collections. She was forced to give up work and move house after wireless over-exposure. She lives in Devon, England.
Matt Fisken
(Upper Valley Electrosmog Awareness,White River Junction, VT, USA) 19/01/2015
"We really appreciate the effort that went into this film. It is not an easy subject (as you know), but I think you covered it objectively and compassionately and it is a nice touch to find out at the end that you removed wireless from your home. I am curious, after making this film, both experiencing white zones and now avoiding wireless at home, can you notice the difference ?
My organization, Upper Valley Electrosmog Awareness, is located in White River Junction Vermont and is dedicated to educating the public of eastern Vermont and Western New Hampshire about the risks associated with wireless technology and other sources of EMF."
http://vtdigger.org/tag/matt-fisken/
We have confirmed the screening will be:
Montshire Museum Community Room
1 Montshire Road Norwich, VT, 05055
Friday January 30, 2015 @ 5:30 PM
Beggars Opéra, United Kingdom
28/04/14
"Hello there Marc,
We have received your film ... it is excellent !
Ricky G. of Beggars Opera has suffered from EHS since 1995.
I have suffered less dramatically since 1984 in the days when no one really knew what the symptoms were all about .
I have written an opera about our collective experiences :
Fitelle, FR 24/03/14
"After all her evils, she should have consulted a psychiatrist!!! It is still amazing to
want to find an explanation in this way. And why not follow a psychoanalysis to see if these evils are due to the father! Rubbish!
In my opinion, this is testers we need to have and to use to convince the others. So, in my point of view, start by seeing in what is at home the disturbing electric waves.
Finally, I am myself concerned by disorders, in silence. Recently, I threw my DECT phone. "Thrown" because I would be ashamed to sell it. Thank you for all these truth told in your documentary. It remains to make one about the studies that have been made but have not been shouted from the rooftops."
Lennart Hardell
Professor, Department of Onciology,
University Hospital of Örebro, Sweden
22/02/14
"A most impressive movie"
Carol – USA
Thank you for the 4th bonus. Excellent information. I already bought your DVD' Desperately Seeking White Zone, and have reordered again a few days ago.
It is true I am EHS and MCS since 2003 when I became aware living in an old apartment building in Hartford with old knobs and tubes type of wiring and an old cathod ray computer screen I had symptoms, but the symptoms became worse the 6th year there. Slept outside on a porch on 4th floor for a few months before moving. Then I moved to the woods in Unionville, but my immune system and neurological system was in a bad shape, and they had problems there too with the electricity due to water leaking from showers upstairs and coming down in light fixtures, squirrels getting inside.and black ants who like wiring too. I slept at a neighbors house for a while but refrigerators affected me there too. I slept sometimes in a truck. I was there a year. They had someone close the outside openings near the roof and a few other places where rain was getting in, and tried to find the leak as well. Now, I still live in Unionville in Elderly and Disabled Housing and.I would title what has occured here...I had it all...That is Ground Currents, Dirty Electricity, 60 Hz problems, and MW Emissions from .the church steeple. Fields coming down from ceiling. Alarm system that had Americium that an expert BuaBiologist I paid for (my children helped) felt it was not grounded, and in this Section 3 there was something wrong with some wiring, but not in my apartment..12 apartments connected in this section...all ground floor.
There is no agency that helps, but one person has tried to make a few improvements.here, yet neighbor with DECK phone on bedroom wall affected me adversely, and my other neighbor had an old microwave oven that causedI me to feel hot spots on my arm, Thankfully she bought a new one...no problem after that.
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I slept in Community Room, a tent one summer due to the fields in apartment, but only during the day.. Presently Ground Currents and they are not fixing them...no law yet...even public health dept. I have various meters that I check the fileds, but I do not know how to check for ground currents. The Stetzerizers do not work here, make me feel awful, and I have had feedback from other stating the same.
I buy books and DVDs about EHS and give to the Farmington Library, and recently I gave them your DVD, and hope to see it on the shelf soon. In Karl Riley's book it states that he has asked electricians across the USA about electrical problems in buildings, and they told him between 60-80 % electrical problems they find.
I joined a few years back BauBiology, and also one great site in USA is www.electromagnetichealth.org I just found out in CT that they also have defibrillators in their schools. In Canada 4 children had heart attacks in schools with WiFi, and rather than putting fiber optic in the schools to keep the children safe, they have the WiFi/Defibrllator. Who is crazy and money hungry???
I have been trying to write my book since 2004, but I have learned much more since then and presently I only have bits and pieces of my story written, including what I have written above. My country does not protect us. Most people are so unfamilair with EHS. i am told I have to try to get some legislation on this issue. I have many symptoms, and my energy level is fair to poor at times.
Kind Regards
Sue M., Aukland, New Zealand
15/02/14
"I received my copies (1 + 1) of your Desperately Seeing White Zone movie today and have just finished watching. I was very impressed that it arrived on the opposite side of the world exactly a week after ordering. I thought that was very fast. The subtitles were done well too. I was a bit worried that might make it harder to follow but no problem as long as eyes kept fixed to the screen
I like very much what you did with the movie & bonus material. Wish this sort of thing got on TV for the general public to see.
Thank you so much for bothering to give our predicament such good recognition. Here in New Zealand there is very little awareness of EHS, or other harm that can come from electro smog. I live in Auckland, the largest city, but had to go over 2 hours out of this city to find a doctor (specialising in environmental medicine) who understood the environmental impairment. As far as I know he is the only practicing doctor in the North Island who does. Even natural practitioners don't seem to have come across it, or know how to recognize it, which seems astounding. I trained as a naturopath, medical herbalist and homeopath but before the wireless took over. Of course the doctor can't do anything for me but it was nice to have someone prepared to put "Electrohypersensitivity Syndrome" on a medical certificate, even if it is currently not an accepted "condition" by the welfare system here and it seems I will be a "test case". For me it was hugely important just to be validated and not treated like I must have a psychological problem and/or be put in the "too hard" basket. He even provides a wireless-free practice because he realize the impact, which he too notices and feels better without.
I should be in bed. Not uplifted by the movie but most of the people you showed are worse than I am currently, although I hardly leave home but out, except over 1 hour out it is even worse. Free Wifi everywhere there are shops, all turned up to the maximum to it seems. Madness!
I have been trying to find the strength to find somewhere better to move to for a few months. Been in same place 28 years but I have a cell tower close by (less than 150 metres) and an adjoining neighbour with Wifi and cordless phone who won't consider changing, although maybe he will if he watches your movie. We don't even have an ES organisation in NZ just one guy at the bottom of the South Island who seems to field calls from people knowing or thinking they are ES or EHS looking for advice. There is whoever www.stopsmartmeters.org.nz that does at least mention EHS"
Paul, New Zealand
02/02/14
"A great movie, very sad. I have a number of Electro-Sensitive friends and will loan it to them to view. I'll also encourage others to purchase."
Ian, New Zealand
02/02/14
"I have watched with interest. I have a lot of knowledge of emf. I have informed my patients about the dvd & actively work to educate people about the dangers of emf; and am currently dealing with an abusive power company over smart meter installation/removal. Thank you for the dvd and all your excellent work."new Zealand
Smartemeters
02/01/14
"Thank you for making this film! We received our DVDs and really appreciate the compassion with which this issue was documented".
In France, bordering elongate to prevent the installation of a building facing their relay antenna.
As I played the film I have just to say again what an incredible film it is.
You also have some amazing shots - the birds flying over the mountains - it seems a shame just to play it the once. Also the traffic scene with the screens - wow!
And the shot of Novotel building....says Corporations...and sunsets...and....I could go on forever.
Such a lovely cinematic feel to it & your dulcet tones completes it.