Category Archives: Our Soap Boxes
Bill Moyers on Banned Books Week 2012
This year, Banned Books Week is September 22–28.
GMO OMG—Trailer
Terms and Conditions May Apply—Trailer
2012 International Coastal Cleanup
Click here to view an infographic showing the top 10 items found during the 2012 International Coastal Cleanup. Half of the items on this list are easily recyclable; we must reduce our consumption of what we cannot reuse/recycle.
Girl Rising—Trailer
Williams College 2011 Commencement Speech—Cory Booker
Landfill Harmonic—Trailer
Landfill Harmonic film teaser from Landfill Harmonic on Vimeo.
Click here to read a blog post about the film on the NPR Classical music blog Deceptive Cadence.
If you’re interested in this film, you may also be interested in the 2010 documentary Waste Land. Here’s the synopsis from the official Web site:
Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT and COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) and co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley have great access to the entire process and, in the end, offer stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.
And here’s the official trailer:
The Cliff Effect: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
The Conundrum by David Owen
Click here to watch a video book trailer for The Conundrum by David Owen.