By Pamela Calvert/Plain Speech
Pam Calvert’s film on health issues arising from endocrine disrupters in the First Nation’s community surrounded on three sides by the chemical in Sarnia Ontario, across from Port Huron Michigan, is in rough cut and will be shown locally in mid September. The nerve center of Canada’s petrochemical industry, Sarnia, Ontario once [...]

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Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on “where,” but on “what’s there.” It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature [...]

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A collection of Cold War public service announcements and other kitsch synthesized into “a comic horror film” by Rafferty et al (1982). From the IMDb website: “An ostensibly tongue in cheek documentary about the nuclear age of the late 40′s and 50′s, juxtaposing the horrific realities of the arms race with cheery misinformation(and simplistic redbaiting) [...]

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AFFLUENZA is a groundbreaking film that diagnoses a serious social disease – caused by consumerism, commercialism and rampant materialism – that is having a devastating impact on our families, communities, and the environment. We have more stuff, but less time, and our quality of life seems to be deteriorating. By using personal stories, expert commentary, [...]

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Animation by Chung (1996)
I have a VHS tape collection of the show’s segments that aired on MTV’s “Liquid Television” years ago. Female bionic anti-hero struggles against the forces of order and oppression, and with the great questions of postmodern ontology. From Wikipedia website: “Æon Flux is set in a bizarre, dystopian, future world of mutant [...]

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Jeffrey Stine tells us: The Scout Report has reported on several aspects of the AIRNow website before, but this is the first time that we’ve noticed that they have a very fine selection of short movies on their website. These short films are designed for the general public, and they deal with such topics as [...]

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Directed by Jennifer Baichwal
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds [...]

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