Films for the next film festival

[chris]

This sounds like an interesting suggestion:

I am a curator at the BFI National Film Archive and also currently a student on an MSc course in Human Ecology.

I am interested in exploring how archival film might be used to facilitate conversations around Transition e.g. by showing "how we used to live", providing stimuli for intergenerational conversations, providing historical scale to discussions etc.

I am keen to hear both from anybody already using historical materials within transition initiatives and from any Transition Initiatives that might be interested in working with me around some archival film material. I am keen to explore any and all benefits this could provide and come wishing to collaborate, participate and to go where it wants to go.

http://transitiontowns.org/forum/topic. ... #post-1047

[craig]

There's an 11-minute animation on the climate change tipping point at:
http://wakeupfreakout.org/film/tipping.html
It also brings out the refugee crisis & social conflict that would result from 6 degrees of warming.

[steve]

We have this film and I think it may have been shown at one of the film festivals already (Burngreave night of shorts? I wasn't there).

[steve]

There is a bunch of stuff from the ASPO 6 conference in Ireland including a talk by Rob Hopkins. The Jeff Rubin one is also meant to be good.

Perhaps we could use some of these in an evening of shorts?

http://www.aspo-ireland.org/index.cfm/page/watch

[steve]

On the Beach

Haven't seen this old 1959 film but it was recommended by someone on Jay Hansen's War Socialism list, and it won some Oscars too.

Someone, somewhere, pressed the button and started World War III. Australia has survived - temporarily. The radiation is on it's way, the end inevitable. This is the story of the way in which people faced the coming end, focusing mainly on a young Australian couple and their friends, including the captain of an American submarine that was on patrol in the Pacific when the bombs were falling. And then the Australians detect a morse signal coming from somewhere around San Diego..

Given that nuclear war is becoming a bigger threat again I think it would be good to show some nuclear films - eg. Threads too, which is set in Sheffield.

[steve]

PetroApocalypse Now is another 2008 film I've just come across.

http://www.petroapocalypsenow.com/

Looks good, UK produced and not too long: 47 mins. Trailer:




Also interesting looking is Consume This Movie.

This 80 minute documentary also examines the frenzied pace of fast-lane materialism that is beggining to burn us out. We Americans are just now beginning to yearn for a simpler life, but is it too late? Have we set in motion a runaway train that threatens to undermine the ecological, social and spiritual cornerstones that make the pursuit of happiness possible in the first place?

Here's a couple of trailers for it:





Also a short section on peak oil:

[steve]

A more cheery sounding movie is: One Man, One, Cow, One Planet--How to Save the World.

How To Save The World is a film that takes us into the heart of the world’s most important renaissance – something that few of us are aware is even happening. Hoes rather than swords are at the frontline of a battle for agricultural control that is being fought over Indian soil. Its outcome could well determine the future of the entire earth. Using biodynamic-organic methods, farmers of India are reclaiming their lands and livelihood. At the same time they’re exposing the corporate mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for the environmental and human disaster that it really is.

More... http://www.cloudsouthfilms.co.nz/films/ ... about.html

Trailer:

[steve]

OK this one should be out next month and looks pretty interesting...

Mad City Chickens deftly weaves multiple stories and contextual issues on city chickens and their keepers in a non-linear fashion that one rarely sees in a documentary. From leading experts to urban newbies, experience the humor and heart of what’s fast becoming an international backyard chicken movement.

more...

[steve]

There's a bunch of new videos on the Energy Bullitin including one by Richard Heinberg, one about permaculture, one about housing and others...

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/47963

[steve]

What Would Jesus Buy? looks like it provide some lighthearted relief. However overall I don't think we need to campaign about overconsumption anymore. I suspect that will all take care of itself over the next year or two...