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ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
11-18 August 2007
Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory and Bruce Peninsula Environment Group are
hosting a festival of environmental films from 11th.-18th August
The film Festival will be a mixture of Classic films and documentaries each
with an environmental theme.
The Classic films will be introduced by Stephen Scharper, associate
professor at the University of Toronto with 7 years of teaching in film
studies. The films will be followed by an optional discussion led by Stephen
Scharper. All films except 'Winged Migration' will be shown in the Anglican
Church Hall, Lion's Head at 7p.m.
Program.
Saturday 18th Classic Film: Modern Times
Director: Charlie Chaplin
The final appearance of Charlie Chaplin as "the tramp," this is Chaplin's
most overtly political film and one of his most popular. At once hilarious
and prophetic, Modern Times descries the dehumanizing mechanism of urban
industrialization while celebrating the unstinting wellsprings of the human
spirit and of nature. Co-staring Paulette Goddard, the film's depiction of
Chaplin striving to keep up with the unrelenting assembly line, or his
precarious roller-skating in a department store, remain cinematic gems. The
film's conclusion underscores the importance of landscape and nature, as
opposed to the urban factory milieu as the proper, life-giving habitat for
the human.
$10 per film or $25 for a passport to all films.
For more information and tickets contact Ron Baker, 519-795-7652.
Sponsored by Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory and Bruce Peninsula
Environment Group with assistance of the Bruce Peninsula National Park.
Proceeds from the Festival will support the Migration Monitoring program of
BPBO at Cabot Head.
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Bruce Calvert
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