Nine-Week Environmental Film Series
The rainy Cascadian nights are upon us. And what a better way to spend them? The Cascadia Wildlands Project and the University of Oregon's Survival Center are excited to present a nine-week environmental film series titled "Eco-Videos: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!" The film series will be held in room 100 Willamette at the University of Oregon on Wednesday evenings from 7:30-9:30 from January 8-March 5. This Wednesday, January 8, kicks off the series. The event is free and open to the public. Popcorn will be provided at the showings. Please spread the word and let folx know. Warning: Most of these videos are inappropriate or really boring for younger children. Many may offend a normal person's sensibilities.
January 8: Peacock's War (NR; 1988; USA) - Green Beret medic in Vietnam comes home to fight for the grizzly in the North Rockies. This is the story of the real "Hayduke" in Edward Abbey's novel "The Monkey Wrench Gang."
January 15: Carnosaur (R; 1993; USA) - Everything from ecoteurs fighting a gravel company to a hilariously misanthropic geneticist bent on eliminating "just one unruly species." Roger Corman serves up gleeful gobs of gratuitous gore with some sweet shots at genetic engineering, poultry farming, and Earth First!ers!
January 22: Princess Mononoke (M-V; 1997; Japan) - Beautiful, bittersweet animation about the human-driven destruction of Nature set in a mystical 13th century Japan. Warrior princesses, mighty wood gods, cursed heroes, and forest kami all dominate.
January 29: The Burning Season (NR; 1994; USA) - Raul Julia does Chico Mendez in a better-than-usual biopic about the struggle of the Brazilian
rubber-tappers.
February 5: pickAxe Undux (NR; 1997; Cascadia) - This is the director's un-cut; more action, less gassin' version. Our homefries give an inside look at the Warner Creek campaign and the "Salvage Rider" (1995-96) road crew. The statute of limitations is only now expiring.
February 12: Orca (R; 1977; USA) - Attempted orca-napping goes way wrong in this quaint revenge flick by Dino deLaurentiis. You can almost see the poster of the bull orca - "They Killed His Child, They Killed His Wife...Now It's PERSONAL!"
February 19: Bones of the Forest (NR; 1992; Cascadia) - Interesting camera work and great interviews make this one about the B.C. forests and their humans stand out among eco-documentaries.
February 26: Frogs (NR; 1972; USA) - Another treat from the "Nature Bites Back with Double Cheese" B-video pizzeria. Critters take revenge on an obnoxious clan of Southern industrialists who messed up their swamp. Trust us.
March 5: Clearcut (R; 1991; Cascadia))- Trickster Graham Greene teaches a whiny lawyer a wild lesson in wish-fulfillment; drags local timber boss along for a very intense camp-out. Not for the weak.
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