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4th Annual Solar-Powered Film Series- Week 1
| August 21, 2008 8:00 pm | to | August 23, 2008 10:00 pm |
The Solar-Powered Film Series returns to Solar One for the 4th year with two programs of environmental features and shorts, plus games, contests, a scavenger hunt and director Q&As and discussions with experts on various environmental topics. Presented by Solar One and Green Edge Collaborative; for full schedule and more information, click here. Limited chairs will be available, first come first serve; please feel free to bring your own. Please note that documentaries may contain language unsuitable for children.
Thursday August 21 at 8PM
Environmental Art:
Running Fence, 1978, 58 mins.
An engrossing document of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s efforts to build a 24 1/2-mile-long, 18-foot-high fence of white fabric across the hills of northern California.
Christo’s Valley Curtain, 1973, 28 mins.
The first collaboration between the Maysles Brothers and Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and recipient of an Academy Award Nomination.
Friday August 22 at 8pm
Water Shorts:
Gimme Green, 2007, 27 mins.
Gimme Green peers behind the curtain of the $40-billion industry that fuels our nation’s largest irrigated crop—the lawn.
Invisible Creek, 2004, 8 mins.
Travel down the most polluted waterway in America, Newtown Creek, located on the border between Brooklyn and Queens in New York City.
City of Water, 2007, 30 mins.
City of Water explores the aspirations of public officials, environmentalists, academics, community activists, recreational boaters and everyday New Yorkers for a diverse, vibrant waterfront at a time when the shoreline is changing faster than at any other time in New York’s history.
Plus a discussion of CSOs (Combined Sewer Overflows) with Cortney Worrall of the Coastal Marine Resource Center
Saturday August 23 at 8pm
Green Building:
The Greening of Southie, 2008, 81mins.
Building Boston’s first LEED Gold-certified building turns out to be harder than anyone thought. The Greening of Southie shows what happens when you try to build the city of tomorrow… today.
Plus Q&A with director Ian Cheney
See you at the movies!
