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Ads in Wonderland (La Pub Au Pays Des Merveilles) | Murphys Creek Theater | March 27, 2020
Have you ever wanted to discover the behind the scenes of marketing persuasion? To know what technologies and scientific methods are used to unveil the consumers' black box? Ads in Wonderland gives the floor to those who love advertising: CEOs of advertising agencies, neurosciences experts, industrial psychologists, and data engineers. Yet, it also lets whistleblowers, activists, and intellectuals highlight the dangers of this revolution for our society, the environment, and for democracy. After Ads In Wonderland, you won't see your daily ads the same way you used to do.
Matthieu Lietaert | 2019 | 59 mins. | Belgium
The Distant Islands (Isole D'istanti) | Murphys Creek Theater | March 27, 2020
In extreme places, everything is far away. Never enough. Longyearbyen, on the island of Spitzbergen in the Svalbard archipelago is the northernmost inhabited place in Europe, while the southernmost one is La Restinga on the island of El Hierro, the smallest of the seven Canary islands. Two distant islands, on opposite sides, which are the opposite of everything but can be the same thing. They are the places where apparently nothing happens that requires more personality. This is a journey in search of the essence of Europe seen from its extreme borders. Inside landscapes slipped into the people who live them. There must be a place where what you have been and what you want to be in dialogue with each other.
Alberto Meroni | 2019 | 88 mins. | Switzerland
2019 Films
2018 Films
2017 Films
2016 Films
2015 Films
2014 Films
2013 Films
2012 Films
The Distant Islands (Isole D'istanti) | Murphys Creek Theater | March 27, 2020
In extreme places, everything is far away. Never enough. Longyearbyen, on the island of Spitzbergen in the Svalbard archipelago is the northernmost inhabited place in Europe, while the southernmost one is La Restinga on the island of El Hierro, the smallest of the seven Canary islands. Two distant islands, on opposite sides, which are the opposite of everything but can be the same thing. They are the places where apparently nothing happens that requires more personality. This is a journey in search of the essence of Europe seen from its extreme borders. Inside landscapes slipped into the people who live them. There must be a place where what you have been and what you want to be in dialogue with each other.
Alberto Meroni | 2019 | 88 mins. | Switzerland
Home or High Water |
As sea levels continue to rise, coastal communities are trapped between the reality of climate change and the antiquated political policies that threaten their future. Battered by stronger, more frequent storms, residents are faced with an impossible decision: rebuild their home in place to collect flood insurance payments or abandon their property–along with any equity they've accrued–and find a way to start again somewhere else. "Everyone has an individual pathway through that decision about leaving a place you call home," says Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. In Home or High Water, Rush shares her experience among coastal communities large and small, from the storm-ravaged eastern shore of Staten Island to the disappearing bayous of Louisiana. The timely, 12-minute film takes the conversation about climate crisis out of the future and into the present, to the practical reality of lives already in the balance. How are communities at risk adapting? What can they teach us about the challenges to come?
Dave Weich | 2019 | 12 mins. | USA
Is This You Too? | Murphys Creek Theater | March 27, 2020
A woman's discovery of her unhappiness and existential dread may come, in part, because of her fear to do anything about changing it.
Anthony Meindl | 2019 | 8 mins. | USA
Mni Wiconi: Water is Life | Murphys Creek Theater | March 27, 2020
A short black and white hand-drawn film dedicated to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Dakota Territory. The intention of the film is to create social awareness regarding the Dakota Access pipeline and the fossil fuel industry affecting climate change.
Miguel Antonio Genz | 2018 | 3 mins. | USA
The One Percent | Murphys Creek Theater | March 27, 2020
Elite level competition is a cut-throat world, where one percent can make the difference between being a world champion and finishing in 20th position, never being recognized as a world-class athlete. How will you gain that one percent? Hard work, privation, and sacrifice are the typical ways athletes gain that edge. But what if that one percent came from having fun? What if it came from going back to the roots of why you started this quest for excellence in the first place? Maghalie called her best friends and together, they headed on a an adventure on the local path; where it all started. Together, they travel the 464 kilometers of the P’tit Train du Nord in search of the one percent that will help Maghalie become the best in the world. What they discover is that there is incredible power in the simple pleasure of riding a bike. The One Percent is an inspiring story that reminds you of the importance of finding your ‘why’, and that you can find a worthy adventure in your own backyard.
Zacharie Turgeon, Antoine Caron | 2018 | 6 mins. | Canada
WHAT WEEE ARE - WEEEdroponics | Murphys Creek Theater | March 27, 2020
Planting the seeds, growing the future; technology pervades every aspect of our lives: the way we move... the way we work... the way we meet and communicate… how we make love and what we eat... Crops all over the world are grown using increasingly technological methods. It is now possible to grow plants at night and in hostile environments, increasing yields and saving water. Most of these methods are based on... hydroponics. Since the hanging gardens of Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, technology has allowed man to grow great amounts of food. Abundance of food allows man to explore new frontiers... In January 2016, the first flower has blossomed aboard the international space station. Yet, in pursuing his quest, man also generates huge amounts of increasingly technological waste... Space waste is already an issue of cosmic concern.
Alessio De Marchi. Alessandra Turcato| 2019 | 5 mins. | Italy