Riverfilms Continues…….

 

Winter video & discussion series held in conjunction with the Puffin Cultural Forum.

All showings will be at 7 p.m.

Puffin Cultural Forum

20 E. Oakdene Avenue, Teaneck

 

Riverfilms has been a great success. We’ve had at least 20 people and very interesting conversations at each of our three previous screening. In addition to seeing the films, you can check out the art exhibits at the Puffin Cultural Forum. Now through March 1 on exhibit is: Wardy Forty: The Reverberations of Ruins. This poignant exhibit examines the last years of Woody Guthrie's life as a patient at the Greystone Psychiatric Hospital in Morris Plains, NJ, while he was struggling against the effects of Huntington's Chorea. Installation art by Phil Beuhler from the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives.

 

Please join us as this series continues:

 

To be rescheduled – Blue Vinyl, (2002) 101 minutes, Dir. Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold. This documentary provides a uniquely fun take on a serious subject as filmmakers Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold--armed with a camera and a chunk of Helfand's parents' blue vinyl siding--undertake a journey from Merrick, Long Island to Louisiana, from San Francisco to Venice, Italy, to find the truth behind the potential hazards of polyvinyl chloride production, use and disposal.

 

March 18th – Drumbeat for Mother Earth (1999), 54 min., Producers/Directors: Joseph DiGangi & Amon Giebel. Many scientists and tribal people consider persistent toxic chemicals to be the greatest threat to the long-term survival of Indigenous Peoples. Drumbeat for Mother Earth explores how these chemicals contaminate the traditional food web, violate treaty rights and travel long distances. The video features testimony from a variety of Indigenous Nations in the U.S., Central America and the Arctic as well as interviews with scientists, activists, and the chemical industry.

 

April 15th – Rivers to the Sea (1990), 46 minutes, Directed by John Brett. Containing some of the most spectacular underwater footage ever shot, this film explores the abundant life in Atlantic coast rivers. The river is the thread that binds together species as different as salmon, lampreys, ospreys--and humans. Ospreys, kingfishers, cormorants, beavers, snapping turtles, sturgeons, and bass are some of the creatures that appear above or below the surface of the rushing river. The film stresses that humans have a role in the river's ecology.