Event
Sun Late Aft JHN111 Session: 10th Annual Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival
FILMS:
Agony of the Ganges (52 min)
Conversing with Aotearoa/New Zealand (15 min)
Agony of the Ganges (52 min, India)
By the end of the second millennium, as the Aryans spread southward to cover the entire Indo-Gangetic plain, the Ganges became their most sacred river. Of all the places along the Ganga, Benares is perhaps the oldest living city in the world. Because of the overwhelming reverential impact of the Ganges on hundreds of millions of Hindus, a real life paradox today haunts the citizens of Benares. For how long can they continue to ignore the gap between the ritual purity of the river and its actual level of cleanliness. Today, this divide is so wide that combined with global warming and climate change, it threatens the very life of the river and its source the Gangotri glacier. (Iqbal Malhotra, 2008)
Conversing with Aotearoa/New Zealand (15 min, New Zealand, USA)
In an age of technological integration and urban life, people turn to the natural world for a wilderness experience. What draws us to the remote corners of land and sea when we realize something in our live is missing? In this animated documentary, New Zealanders attempt to fathom their deep, personal connection with their land. Shot and animated entirely in New Zealand, director and animator Corrie Francis uses a collage of animation techniques to convey not only the richness of the landscape but the stories it holds. Voices of hunters and trampers, fishermen and farmers, mountaineers, adventure-racers, conservationists, ecologists, artists, Pakeha, Maori and tourists lead us through a visual journey of the wildernesses we find both without and within ourselves. (Corrie Francis, 2006)
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LocationJohnson Hall
4000 15th Ave NE, University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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