2013 Films

Program includes FLETCHER AND THE SPRINGTIME BLOSSOMS, I WISH I WENT TO ECUADOR, AMAZONIA, SCAREDY SQUIRREL, & ALL IN THE WORLD

Four musicians and sound artists from radically different backgrounds not only express their perceptions about music but use their musical talents to create ingenious social harmonies in an increasingly hostile universe...

In 2011, a century had passed since the first oil extraction in Ecuador. In Sucumbíos, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the oil drilling began in 1967 and has affected five indigenous peoples...

Shown with YASUNÍ: A WILD IDEA

Exploring the complexity of oil development within a fragile ecosystem and its effects on the planet as a whole, this film focuses on Ecuador’s unprecedented proposal for fighting global climate change...

Shown with SUCUMBÍOS, LAND WITHOUT EVIL (SUCUMBÍOS TIERRA SIN MAL)

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

Explores the cultural intersections where parenting meets modern medicine and individual rights collide with politics...

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

The Arctic plains are an eminent example of nature’s untouched beauty: an endless nothing in which only a few know how to survive. But a silent assassin is destroying the Inuit community in Greenland...

The culmination of a years-long project to cultivate talented young filmmakers from the hillside favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro...

In 2001 a major wind farm was proposed for the middle of Nantucket Sound. Dubbed “Cape Wind,” with 130 turbines standing 440 feet tall, the project was billed as a clean, green power plant that should be welcomed by all. Instead, Cape Wind became one of the decade’s most confounding political battles...

Award-winning director Thomas Riedelsheimer (Rivers and Tides and Touch the Sound) followed Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias to the Mexican Sea of Cortez, to the depths of Candelor Bay off the Island of Espiritu Santo, where she was commissioned to create an underwater sculpture...

Shown with RED-END AND THE SEEMINGLY SYMBIOTIC SOCIETY

As director Severine von Tscharner Fleming embarks upon her own career in agriculture, she travels across America looking for evidence of a growing movement of young farmers in their twenties and thirties...

The ant Red-end differs from the rest of his cohort and attempts to effect change in his collective...

Shown with GARDEN IN THE SEA (JARDIN EN EL MAR)

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

After the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor on April 26, 1986, around 340,000 people were displaced. In the absence of humans, a profusion of wild species has taken over, creating a new wilderness. At the top of this ecosystem is the wolf...

The video, photography and performance artist Janet Biggs discusses her work, including a recent project for which she scaled a not-quite-dormant volcano in Indonesia. She explains her attraction to remote sites and extreme filming conditions, and shows her video work, “Arctic Trilogy.”