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“EcoParque”
On the outskirts of concrete clad Tiajuana lies EcoParque, an experimental
community fueled by composting and bio-filtration systems.  This film
expresses how and why the EcoParque community model works, and would work
in your community.  It also contrasts utility conglomerate propaganda with
the local people’s successful and sustainable energy production.
EcoParque demonstrates how to improve our relationship with nature by
conserving water, maintaining coastal water quality, preventing
desertification and erosion, and improving decentralized infrastructure.
EcoParque grows on you.
www.environ-MENTALProductions.com

“Bailagua Fronteriza”
“Bailagua Fronteriza” is a pun in Spanish, meaning “Dance of the Border
Water.”
This film explores the power dynamics of environmental policy at the
U.S.-Mexico border, and truly, everywhere. Part documentary and part dance
video, the film introduces border city mayors and council members from
Tijuana, Tecate, San Diego and Imperial Beach, and senior members of
agencies that help decide this region’s future, such as the California
Coastal Conservancy, NOAA, and the natives of Mexico and the U.S.A.  A
dance performance follows that conveys the relationship between these
political representatives and nature itself.

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This Soviet/Cuban collaboration is a kaleidoscopic expose of Cuba during

the time of Batista. It portrays a land of diametric opposites – great

wealth and abject poverty. The political agenda is unapologetic. Within a

structure of four short stories of hardship and abuse, it presents the

crushing exploitation of Cuba¹s people and resources, revealing the

underlying causes of Castro¹s revolution. Epic tracking shots and an array

of images in high contrast black and white poetically convey the

conflicting lifestyles of the monied elite and the barely subsisiting

underclass. Lyrical, joyous yet harsh and unwavering, Soy Cuba is a

dazzling work. (141m)  

Dir. Mikhail Kalazov Cuba/USSR 1964

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The Zag Men, Les Raww (strings, vox), Tim Leather (strings, vox), and S.Dodds (percussion and allsorts), create live themes, motifs, and incidental music in support of the visuals.

Tonight’s encore performance reinterprets F.W. Murnau’s vampire classic with an original score inspired by Zappa, King Crimson, John Zorn, The Residents, and Reagan’s Polyp.