TOMORROW (Thurs, June 26): Freegan.info's Trashy Movie Night: Gleaners & I; Operation Ivy
Trashy Movie Night 3
Featuring:
The Gleaners & I
& Operation Ivy: Dumpster Diving at Elite Colleges
Free admission! Free food (all food will be both freegan and vegan)!
Discussion and Trash Tour (on bicycles) to follow the films.
Thursday, June 26th, 2008, 7PM @ 123 Community Space
123 Tompkins Street @ Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn, NY
Presented by Freegan.info.
Visit our website at www.freegan.info
Directions to 123 Space
Subway: G to Myrtle-Willoughby, walk one block
East on Myrtle Avenue, turn right on Tompkins Avenue, and it's on the
left. Or take the J to Myrtle, walk four blocks West on Myrtle Avenue,
turn right onto Tompkins Avenue, and it's right there on the left.)
Additional Info: Call 610-764-7587 for more info or email .
About The Gleaners & I
Agnes Varda, grandmother of the French New Wave, uncovers a community of
French trash-pickers with a long and proud history in her film THE
GLEANERS AND I, voted Best Documentary of 2001 by the National Society of
Film Critics. The film uses Jean-Francois Millet's famous 1867 painting of
scavengers in an abandoned field, entitled "Les Glaneuses," as a
jumping-off point for an exploration of modern-day gleaners, who rummage
through waste for food and other useful materials sometimes out of
necessity, but often by choice, in disdainful opposition to the
wastefulness of consumer culture. In the course of this self-described
"wandering road documentary," Varda meets gleaners in abandoned crop
fields in rural France and supermarket dumpsters in Paris. She even meets
an artist and philosopher who sculpts with abandoned materials and
describes junk as a "cluster of possibilities." As Varda's film documents
the lives of the gleaners, it also artfully reflects the filmmaker's own
role as a documentarian, a culler of images and sounds, and a gleaner in
her own right. (82 minutes. French w/ English Subtitles)
About Operation Ivy
Operation Ivy depicts the incredible amount of stuff students throw away
at the end of the academic year at five elite colleges, Yale, Harvard,
Trinity, Williams, and Wesleyan. It shows how people who live and work
near the colleges react -- by dumpster diving the stuff for themselves and
their families. (10 minutes, English)