2008 Film

2008 Solar-Powered Film Series:

August 21-23 and September 4-6

Thursday August 21 Running Fence + Christo’s Valley Curtain

Friday August 22 Gimme Green + Invisible Creek + City of Water

Saturday August 23 The Greening of Southie

Thursday September 4 Burning the Future

Friday September 5 Garbage Warrior

Saturday September 6 The Future of Food

Plus popcorn, beer, ice cream, trivia games, director Q&As and much more! Scroll down for the full schedule.

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.
Plus Q&A with director Albert Maysles

Update: Unfortunately, Albert Maysles will be unable to join us for this screening. Instead we will have an environmental art presentation from eco-artist and Solar One Education Coordinator Chris Kennedy. You can read about his Urban Epiphyte project here!

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

Thursday September 4 at 8pm
“Clean” Coal?:

Burning the Future, 2008, 89 mins.
In Burning the Future: Coal in America, writer/director David Novack examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia.
Plus Q&A with director/producer David Novack and a discussion on the new NY Solar Initiative with Solar One Advocacy Coordinator Chris Neidl.

Friday September 5 at 8pm
Waste:

Garbage Warrior, 2008, 86 mins.
The epic story of radical Earthship eco-architect Michael Reynolds, and his fight to build off-the-grid self-sufficient communities.
Plus author Elizabeth Royte talks about her books Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash and Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It

Saturday September 6 at 8pm
Food:

The Future of Food, 2004, 88 mins.

Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, The Future of Food examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world’s food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis today.
Plus Eco-Tour Scavenger Hunt (visit www.GreenEdgeNYC.org for details), and Cookie Competition! Bring your best cookies and compete for a Big Blue Ribbon and the envy and adoration of your peers (please include ingredients list with entries)! Tasting at 7:30pm; winner will be announced after the film.

* Please note that documentaries may contain language unsuitable for children.