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The Journal of Short Film: Volume 4 is finally coming on August 8. Thar she is, at the #10 spot: ¡Sí, Se Puede!
The complete lineup:
1. ÉRAMOS POCOS – Borja Cobeaga (2005, 16:00)
When his wife leaves him, Joaquín turns to his son to help him bring his mother-in-law out of a home to do the housework.
2. THE MAN WHO MET HIMSELF – Ben Crowe (2005, 9:50)
Who is Stephen Maker? Did he fake his own death, or do doppelgangers really exist?
3. BEFORE DAWN – Bálint Kenyeres (2005, 12:00)
Before dawn the wheat quietly undulates on the hillside.
Before dawn some people will rise while others will take away their hope.
4. DUMB ANGEL – Deco Dawson (2005, 9:00)
Equal parts improvisational performance, experimental film, behind-the-scenes documentary, music video, and audio composition.
5. ROBO-CLONES – Steve Delahoyde and Nathan Rabin (2005, 5:30)
A timely and provocative look at an explosive social issue: the effect of murderous robot clones on workplace morale.
6. THE OPTION OF WAR – Nick Fox-Gieg (2005, 6:30)
A soldier is taken prisoner in the night by a pack of jackals who demand that he betray his sleeping friends.
7. WHY I DON’T GO TO THE MOVIES – Paul Karlin (2004, 7:00)
The force of romantic obsession and the doldrums of life with a goddess lead to a strange vow.
8. DEPRESSION – Louis Lapat (2005, 13:20)
How do you fight depression? Routine exercise, daily work, and an insecure girlfriend to soothe your ego when feeling down.
9. ERRATA – Alexander Stewart (2005, 7:00)
An abstract film made by photocopying copies of copies thousands of times. Each frame of film is a copy of the previous frame.
10. ¡Sí, Se Puede! – B rian Liloia (2006, 14:00)
A timely documentary giving a voice to undocumented immigrants currently facing reform issues in the United States.
Cooool.
The implications…
Bless your soul, Greenpeace.
Awesome… Four Corners, an Australian investigative journalism TV program has done a report on the concepts of peak oil, which is also viewable online. (Play this on US television, eh?) Haven’t watched it yet myself, but I’m hoping for the best…
Double whoa: Sundance Channel Green.
I saw Oil on Ice in the store a few weeks back, and I just now remembered to look it up. Well, I guess I am mentioning it here so I remember to keep it in mind. (I always seem to have 1,000 things rolling through my head at any given moment, and I always forget to look up movies/things that I try to remember.)
Well… yea. Here’s a nice summary of the documentary on Gristmill.
Anyone see it?
Sometimes, I want to totally disassociate myself from the human race.
Book: Design Like You Give a Damn
Currently one in seven people lives in a slum or refugee camp, and more than three billion people-nearly half the world’s population-do not have access to clean water or adequate sanitation. The physical design of our homes, neighborhoods, and communities shapes every aspect of our lives.Yet too often architects are desperately needed in the places where they can least be afforded.Edited by Architecture for Humanity, Design Like You Give a Damn is a compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. The first book to bring the best of humanitarian architecture and design to the printed page, Design Like You Give a Damn offers a history of the movement toward socially conscious design and showcases more than 80 contemporary solutions to such urgent needs as basic shelter, health care, education, and access to clean water, energy, and sanitation.
Al Gore is doing a book signing at Book Ends in Ridgewood, New Jersey on July 17. I’d say that’s pretty neat. I’ll probably drop in.
I saw An Inconvenient Truth last week and was pretty thoroughly (oxymoron?) impressed. Gore is an excellent speaker and his presentation hits most of the key elements surrounding global warming. (How awesome would it have been to hear him use the term “peak oil“, though?)
Also, Gore in Entertainment Weekly. It’s great to see big issues like the death of the planet global warming at least creeping its way into the mainstream media in some form.
StopGlobalWarming.org’s recommended books on globabl warming.
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