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Aren Bergstrom
Приєднався 21 бер 2012
The personal channel for Toronto-based filmmaker Aren Bergstrom. In addition to being a filmmaker, Aren is also a travel marketing professional and fiction author. He also writes about film and film culture at 3 Brothers Film.
Sunset in the Saudi Arabian Desert | Timelapse
Sunset falls over the desert near Tabuk, Saudi Arabia in Fall 2023.
Music: "Soft Coming Spring" by Syouki Takahasi.
©Aren Bergstrom
Music: "Soft Coming Spring" by Syouki Takahasi.
©Aren Bergstrom
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Sunset Over Japan's Seto Inland Sea | Timelapse
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The last light of the day falls over the Seto Inland Sea of Japan in Fall 2022. The view from Bella Vista Spa & Marina, Onomichi. Music by Piotr Witowski: pixabay.com/music/meditationspiritual-relaxing-music-vol1-124477/ ©Aren Bergstrom
LÄCK (2019) Comedy Short About Swedish Furniture
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A bewildered condo dweller (Jordan Towes) descends into a nervous spiral after buying a Swedish coffee table and becoming convinced it is deliberately ruining his life. Directed by Aren Bergstrom Produced by Zach Rintoul Written by Aren Bergstrom & Zach Rintoul Starring Jordan Towes, Robyn Harrison, Paul Nicholas Mason, Jeff Homer, Kimberly Garrett, and David John Phillips Director of Photograp...
A Consecrated Life (2017) Religious Drama Short Film
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An intelligent, devout young woman (Gracie Robbin) announces to her family (M.E. Lewis and Lisa Kovack) that she’s going to abandon academics and become a nun, but in so doing, she finds herself in opposition to her family’s wishes and questioning her own spiritual convictions. Written, edited, and directed by Aren Bergstrom Produced by Tabitha Grove and Aren Bergstrom Starring Gracie Robbin, R...
LÄCK (2019) Comedy Short Film Teaser Trailer
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A bewildered condo dweller (Jordan Towes) descends into a nervous spiral after buying a coffee table and becoming convinced it's deliberately ruining his life. Written by Aren Bergstrom & Zach Rintoul. Directed by Aren Bergstrom.
Lazarus (2016) Mystery Thriller Series Trailer
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A stubborn, alcoholic loner (JoAnn Nordstrom) receives a video message from the son (Lex Stultz) she thought died eight years ago. She dedicates herself to finding him, which forces her to delve into her city’s seedy underbelly and unearth the sins of her past. Directed by Aren Bergstrom Written and Produced by Aren Bergstrom & Zach Rintoul Starring JoAnn Nordstrom, Tony Ofori, and Lex Stultz D...
QuanTom (2013) Sci-Fi Comedy Short Film
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A scruffy janitor (Matt Duncan) has to overcome his hatred of his sister's cocky fiancé (Edwin MacIsaac) in order to save his sister (Alison Brooks) from a diabolical industrialist (Dwight McFee) who seeks to steal the plans for her experimental teleportation device. Directed by Aren Bergstrom Written by Nicholas John Produced by Tabitha Grove Starring Matt Duncan, Edwin MacIsaac, Alison Brooks...
i didn’t expect the profanity in the breakup scene, but thats just how life really is at times, makes the movie really hit home
heart-warming
huh....
FINALY! A story with a conclusion!!! KUDOS!!
I felt a lot was missing from this short movie, no talk of what convent she was drawn too and why, the nun acted like it was jail, once in she couldn't leave. In the "olden" days you were shamed and left in the dark, but not today. Women discern for years. I felt with med school looming, she was almost escaping to the convent. I would want her to talk to a spiritual director and really delve into is it a real call or something else. I wish she said she wanted to work as a doctor as a nun, that is one order near DC and I know a priest in training who went to med school. Just felt it was good but lacking
Her parents were like many but they would come around. But did she visit convents, did she know one order? Why can't she use her gifts there, some are teachers, some nurses/doctors, some help pregnant women, some work with the poor. If she said she wrote orders, had it on her mind for years, but it seemed so sudden to her parents.
What a great show! Very funny and heartwarming!
Thanks for saying that! Appreciate you watching!
It's not "selfish" for someone to become a nun or priest, when God is calling them to do that
I'm getting the courage to express my feelings to others that I want to become a Priest
Praying for you
@@MarthaSedano-kf6cj thank you so much
Wonderful! I think the swearing could have been left out, however. There were probably better ways to portray the guy's feelings without it. Still a great film though! God bless
This is literally me rn. I'm with the same situation 😭
Praying for you
This was surprisingly nice! Best bit was when Tom did the 'Darth Maul' thing with the mop. 😄
Thanks for watching! Tom and the mop never get old haha
Wow - thank you so much for making this video! Reminds me of my own story. It's so difficult when friends and family don't support discerning a vocation to religious life. But the good news is we have a good God, who only wants the best for us. Praying for all those discerning! <3
Amen, pray for more people to answer the Call to their Vocation. All of them require chastity and obedience, it just looks different if you're called Priest, Nun, Brother, Consecrated Virgin, *or even the Vocation of Marriage.*
Good for her God should grant everyone’s wishes. There is no point to making something having that something believe in you and you gaslighting and destroying all their wishes and wants
Beautiful movie
Thanks for watching!
FUN !!!
ha ... " I hate you to the power of 10 "
Brilliant stuff ❤ Cool film Keep them coming
My favorite line is, "This is such a good mop!" 🤣
Funny, she is being selfish? Why, because of the choices they made? Because she wants to live her own life, make her own choices? It is her life to live, how is that selfish? They sound a bit controlling to me and trying to make her feel guilty about it. Smh
I think it was a shock. If she mentioned going on a weekend retreat to one convent or writing them , maybe they'd understand more. Just being religious doesn't mean you are going into religious life and many do discern thinking they have a vocation and they don't. I know one couple who both went before they knew each other, to seminary and convent and left. No shame, it wasn't that, it was for them to marry.
You guys work is Amazing...Peace
This is Amazing, acting was great...Peace
Thanks for watching! I'm glad to hear you loved the acting.
This film is quite idealistic. In reality, religious life is hard enough without having doubts that you gave up a lucrative and much-needed career. The nun, who I assume was a vocation director, should have suggested that the candidate wait a year or finish college before joining.
Except if she just got accepted into med school, she is graduating with her bachelor's. But, when God calls, it's time to go.
The film overlooks the fact that a community and the church at large have to confirm a vocation. It’s not the decision of the individual alone.
I thought the same thing when the young woman instantly told the nun she was ready to join. Woah there! Let's wait a year and then see how you feel.
And why no talk of discernment, that she can change her mind after a year or two? It's not jail. I didn't like how the nun spoke like it was back in her day. Now the nuns stress it is discernment and you need to visit etc. She never even told her parents what kind of nun she was discerning to be.
This film is so inspiring and reaches into me so deep. I’m not Catholic, but I truly feel the same within my own faith. Beautiful.
I'm so happy it worked for you this way! Thanks for watching and sharing.
I do too. When I first got saved a lot of people wondered what was wrong with me. But this is the one thing I've never had regrets about.
6:22 it's a Bridgeport milling machine
i wanna be a nun just for shits and giggles
I hope you don't trivialize everything and everyone in your life.
Beautiful film. God calls all of his children to do and become everything He has placed within their hearts, whether ecclesiastical, or otherwise. It is the unregenerate heart that is 'desperately wicked', NOT the regenerated heart, which is pure, and yes, even holy, in the Father's (and Son's) eyes. It's the sincere intention, and noble motive, to do, and to BE, God's Will, that is the determining, and fully justifying, factor.
How dare you try to get a job without first running it past me. Imagine for a second if the man said that to the woman. This show wasn't terrible till the very end.
2:04 Tom…buddy, try not to look like you’re going to go home drink cheap whiskey and clean your guns. Tom….take off those framing bags, your not a carpenter.
Excellent!
Use that sucker to teleport them all into space
Man the horror movie and macabre things is a hard one. I had traumatic night terrors when I was a kid. If you don't know what that is look it up. Even as an adult I have trouble sleeping partly because of them. Watching horror movies before bed were the only thing that made them stop. I have no idea why but because of that scarry stuff is comforting and dear to me. I don't surround myself with black cats and fake Halloween corpses but I do like skulls and skeletons. I have a skeleton I named Slim Pickens. Mr Pickens is my Co pilot every October. Sure I could get rid of that kind of stuff but it'll be hard. Very hard.
A long time ago I almost worked out a method by which teleportation could work but the side effects were a better weapon and the backlash was also lethal to everyone involved . In the last couple of years I worked out a few other systems less ridiculous but still foolish .
5:30 you know I know this isn’t real! No… not that! I'm talking about right here 5:30 obviously if it was 2 men, right after they teleported! They would be arguing over who gets to hold the teleporter! Come on! Let me carry it! No, I'm the scientist! So what, it's my sister! So, she's going to be my wife! Um, not if something happened to her, for a Smart guy, you didn't calculate that did you! Now let me carry it while you go rescue your future wife!
Lol, I could totally see that happening! 😂
Breaking up with that guy was a good decision, whether or not she becomes a nun, lol.
When you choose to go nun after racking up student debt, who pays off the debt? nuns don't have money to pay off student loans. and joeyB can't forgive that debt. Lovely that she became a nun. but you have a responsibility to pay off your debt first.
One cannot enter a religious order with any debt. Yes, I'm a vocation director
My hunch is the first we pay the debt, then we go….at least that’s what I did….
They have charities that help, others say they have to wait. Why should they take that on? Some charities though, if you leave, one girl was told after a year, this convent wasn't for her, you do need to repay I'm sure. That wouldn't be right or maybe they hold payment in some way.
If you are going to use a little known word like Consecrated, please define it first..
Consecrated life is a state of life in the Catholic Church lived by those faithful who are called to follow Jesus Christ in a more exacting way..
is that definition still true without the word Catholic or is it only for Catholics? ie: state of life in the Christian Church lived by those faithful who are called to follow Jesus Christ in a more exacting way..
Here's an example of how not to act. What do things not look like in real life? Here, watch this
Whoa. 2 minutes in and the acting...holy buckets
Beautiful! It can be so difficult to follow a religious path that others around you do not understand or accept. But this young woman dealt with this with grace, courage, and fortitude. Certainly an excellent example for all of us!
Where was the Tabernacle in this film. It's supposed to be authentically Catholu, yes?
since when was the F* word good scripting in a film about Consecrated life?
And all of that in 12 minutes. Excitement, action, humor, a full range of emotions. Very, very well done.
Outstanding ! Praise be to The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit ✝️♥️♥️♥️🙏 (I FELT God at the Finish ♥️😇♥️)
I am happy as a seminarian. I thank God for my beautiful parents.
Praying for you
Please make more films on this topic.
I have hearing loss and could not clearly hear the speaking due to the the music overpowering the voice so I left. I don’t know why so many channels on here have the need to drown out the voices with music. Not all these channels have cc. This is how you lose followers.
I'm sorry you couldn't hear what was going on in the film! But UA-cam does have automated closed captioning that you can turn on when watching. It's the little "CC" symbol next to the settings and autoplay buttons. Hope it works for you in the future!
Oh wow, I have the same table. Black brown, right? Such a good color. Durable too, mine doesn't have a scratch on it.
No wonder my acts that way!
If these woman knew that they don’t have to be nuns to become true followers of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus commanded us to love him, to follow his commandments, to preach the gospel with friends, family, coworkers and make disciples not to join a monastery
What you said is a general statement, which is correct. But what is more correct is to do the WILL of Father Almighty. For example: If Jesus led a very good married life with lot of children , will that be ok? Then will the mankind be saved? Didn't the disciples left their loving wife and children to proclaim about Jesus to the world? “Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. - Matthew 7:21
What is required is to do the will of the Father, as you are able to discern it, whatever that may be. And not everyone is called to the same thing. Paul said it well, that there are many different parts, doing different things, in one body.
That’s Only YOUR Version ✝️♥️♥️♥️🙏
@@allanramusiewicz996 it’s in the Bible so it’s not MY version it’s God’s version
If devoting your life to Jesus isn’t loving Him, then I don’t know what is.
Sooo Powerful