Embarras Valley Film Festival 2013
Environmental Shorts and Features Screened!
November 7- 9, 2013
Strip-Mall Nature. David Gracon, Director
Strip-Mall Nature is an observational meditation on the poetic intersection of nature and human constructed spaces designed primarily for human consumerism. The video is part of Gracon’s “Ordinary Video Series” where he spontaneously captures documentary events on his smartphone and edits them into short, visual, haiku-like videos.
One Year’s Crop. Rick Sands, Director
Back on the farm upon the death of his father, Robert Biggs, long an actor, musician, composer and writer, struggles to reconcile the story of where he came from, with the stories he now writes for the stage. Haunting, big sky visuals of the windswept prairie support a memoir unfolding in four patient seasons.
The Florida Suite. Jeff Thompson, Director
The Florida Suite is a poetic documentary about a citrus farmer living in a log cabin who cares for his aged mother, his dogs, and his land.
Between Two Rivers, Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan, Directors
Between Two Rivers offers a remarkable insight into the community of Cairo, Illinois and its struggles with severe economic, social and environmental pressures. The film juxtaposes the city’s tumultuous past against the backdrop of the latest crisis to afflict the community: the record-breaking floods of spring 2011, when the rising Ohio and Mississippi rivers threatened to destroy the town.
Filmed on the surrounding levees, rivers, lakes and woodlands the documentary explores Cairo's relationship to the unique environment that encircles the town. The tip of southern Illinois is a biological midpoint of the USA; a region of natural diversity where numerous species and terrains meet at the limits of their northern and southern range. At a time when national governments are reeling from the effects of a global financial crisis, Between Two Rivers reveals the stark effects of economic inequalities, environmental disasters and social injustice, as experienced by the people of one beleaguered town caught between two mighty rivers.
Expedition Nature’s Realm: The Anthropocene Era, Cameron Craig, Director
This film is part of an eight part documentary series that explores the coexistence between humanity and nature that is Earth. Throughout the series, issues that concern the future of the natural environment are presented with vivid images of nature at work in the past and present with the hopes that viewers make their own decision what is to be done for the future. After all, we are all equal and temporary inhabitants of this precious but fragile dot in a very large universe. In the second episode, "The Anthropocene Era," we explore the the positive and negative influence humans have on the natural environment.
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