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October 10, 2013
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July 23, 2013
Description: The American dream of owning a house with a white picket fence goes head-to-head with environmental sustainability in this urgent, beautifully crafted documentary. When an ambitious real estate developer sets out to transform thousands of acres of pristine hill country around Austin, Texas into a suburban development threatening a nearby natural spring and local […]
April 11, 2013
Description: Oscar Nominated “Chasing Ice” is a landmark in cinematic achievement. Through the use of revolutionary time-lapse cameras, National Geographic photojournalist James Balog captures the eroding glaciers of the world. This eerie yet awe-inspiring documentary presents irrefutable evidence of global climate change. Once a skeptic, Balog realizes first hand the dire condition of our changing […]
February 14, 2013
Dir. Laura Israel, 81 min., U.S.A., 2010Sunday 13, 2:00 PM · Monday 14, 7:00 PM. What do we really know about wind power? We are told it’s “green energy” and reduces our dependency on foreign oil. That’s exactly what the people of Meredith in upstate New York thought when a wind developer offered to supplement […]
TAR CREEK is the story of the worst environmental disaster you’ve never heard of: the Tar Creek Superfund site. Once one of the largest lead and zinc mines on the planet, Tar Creek is now home to more than 40 square miles of environmental devastation in northeastern Oklahoma: acid mine water in the creeks, stratospheric […]
Dir. Robert Smithson, 32 min., U.S.A., 1970Friday 11, 9:00 PM · Monday 14, 4:00 PM. This film, made by the artist, Robert Smithson is a poetic and process minded film depicting a “portrait” of his renowned earth work–SPIRAL JETTY–as it juts into the shallows off the shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake. A voice-over by […]
Dir. Charles and Ray Eames, 9 min., U.S.A., 1977Friday 11, 9:00 PM · Monday 14, 4:00 PM. POWERS OF TEN takes us on an adventure in magnitudes and wholeness. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view […]
The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudi Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a […]
Dir. Francine Cavanaugh & Adams Wood, 81 min., U.S.A., 2010Friday 11, 7:00 PM · Thursday 17, 7:00 PM. ON COAL RIVER takes viewers on a gripping emotional journey into the Coal River Valley of West Virginia, a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. The local school happens to be alongside an […]
A Toxic Comedy look at vinyl, the world’s second largest selling plastic. With humor, hope and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director Daniel B. Gold travel from Helfand’s hometown to America’s vinyl manufacturing capital and beyond in search of answers about the nature of polyvinyl chloride […]
Sold live in vending machines and department stores, plastic replicas included as prizes in the equivalent of a McDonald’s Happy Meal and the subject of the N°. 1 videogame, MushiKing, from the smallest backyard to the top of Mt. Fuji, insects inspire an enthusiasm in Japan seen nowhere else in this world. Like a detective […]
Directed by Amy Hart, 25 min., U.S.A., Bullfrog Films Through the inspiring story of Charles Banda, a local fireman turned waterman who has drilled over 8OO wells for impoverished communities in Malawi, it becomes apparent why clean water should be first if we are genuinely committed to reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and reducing […]
