Wednesday 26 Nov / We feed the world

We feed the world (2005)
a documentary by Erwin Wagenhofer

In WE FEED THE WORLD, Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we eat.
His journey takes him to France, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, Brazil and back to Austria.
Leading us through the film is an interview with Jean Ziegler, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.

WE FEED THE WORLD is a film about food and globalisation, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow–a film about scarcity amid plenty.With its unforgettable images, the film provides insight into the production of our food and answers the question what world hunger has to do with us.

15th October / Masculin, Féminin

Masculin, Féminin (France 1966)
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Godard offers '15 precise facts' about the children of Marx and Coca-Cola: a series of scattershot observations of young people in Paris in 1965. This is pre-political Godard, which means that it attacks on all cylinders without having any strong line of its own. But its parodies and satires are recklessly inventive, and its fundamental pessimism isn't as flip as it may at first seem.(From Time Out Film Guide)

25th Sept / Manufactured Landscapes

Manufactured Landscapes (Canada 2006)
A documentary by Jennifer Baichwal


Jennifer Baichwal's cameras followed canadian artist Edward Burtynsky on a tour of Asia as he took large-scale photographs of giant industrial landscapes.
While the film clearly serves as a commentary on the impact of large scale industrialization on our natural world, Burtynsky and the film makers were careful neither to criticize, nor praise these developments.