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Rachael’s Film Night Presents…

DUTCH HARBOR: WHERE THE SEA BREAKS ITS BACK

Thursday, January 1, 1970, 12:00 am, $5

This beautifully filmed, unorthodox, black-and-white documentary captures life in the unique community of Dutch Harbor, a remote fishing village off the coast of Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. Although its reputation for lawlessness has faded, Dutch Harbor remains one of the last true frontier towns, with an unforgiving climate and a hard-bitten population. The film captures the village in transition, as it begins to be compromised by commercialism and industry. Impressionistic footage shot on grainy 16mm and blown up super 8 of the seas and landscape and somber voice-over interviews with the locals are accentuated by a haunting score crafted by members of Palace, Gastr Del Sol, Tortoise, The Vandermark Five and others.

Preceded By:

GONE TOMMOROW: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF GARBAGE
A short documentary by Heather Rogers
2002, TRT 18:58

Gone Tomorrow explores the untold story of garbage, one of the most hidden yet omnipresent substances around, asking the question why do we produce so much? In 1998 each American dumped 1600 pounds of refuse and our mountains of garbage get bigger every year. This short documentary uncovers the contradictions of modern day recycling, digs into the history of the post-WWII golden era of consumption, and unearths the rich political past of waste handling all to investigate the roots of our waste addicted convenience culture. Extensive use of archival films and photos from turn of the 19th century garbage dumps to the super hip product design movies of the fifties. Featuring interviews with Richard Walker, writer and geographer, and Mary Lou Van Deventer, owner of Berkeley”s coveted salvage yard Urban Ore.

info: rachael@akpress.org or 510.208.1706


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