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GEOGRAPHYCOMMUNICATION GEOGRAPHY Playing the News A Film by Jeff Plunkett & Jigar Mehta

PLAYING THE NEWS profiles Kuma War, a video- “An excellent teaching tool… game company that uses satellite technology to Highly recommended.” create an intensely realistic simulation of actual —Educational Media Reviews Online events in the Iraq War. It features interviews 2005 Currie Documentary Prize, with Kuma executives and designers, a media UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism studies professor, a New Technology critic, a 22 minutes | color | 2005 cc war correspondent, and several video gamers. Sale/DVD: $225 | Order #GE08-01 The game’s creators argue that it is designed to convey accurate news and information to young people who do not ordinarily follow current affairs. Although the state-of-the-art technology utilized accurately portrays the geography of the conflict, the film questions whether Kuma War enables players to actually learn about Iraq, its geography and society, or whether it simply exploits the war for entertainment purposes.

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY Still, the Children Are Here Directed by Dinaz Stafford Produced by Mira Nair (Vanity Fair, Salaam West Garo Hills, villagers still grow ancient and Bombay), STILL, THE CHILDREN ARE HERE is an diverse strains of hill rice in the same manner exquisitely photographed portrait of the Garo as man first did 6000 years ago. people of India, an indigenous society that has Shot over the course of an entire growing maintained its culture in isolation from a rapidly cycle, from the preparation of the fields to the urbanizing and Westernizing country. In the rice harvest, STILL, THE CHILDREN ARE HERE is an elegant meditation on an ancient but increasingly threatened way of life. “Beautifully shot... Portrays a rich way of life and how it’s now threatened by agricultural development and outside market forces.” —TV Guide.com 2005 Association for Asian Studies Film Festival 85 minutes | color | 2003 Sale/DVD: was $440 now $398 | Order #GE08-02 FIRST RUN/ICARUS FILMS CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY DEVELOPMENT GEOGRAPHY The Wild East–Portrait of an Urban Nomad DAM/AGE A Film by Michael Haslund-Christensen A Film with Arundhati Roy A Film by Aradhana Seth THE WILD EAST is an ethnographic rendering of “Conjures up a series of fascinating and contemporary life in Ulaan Bataar, a city at the highly expressive tableaux from distant DAM/AGE traces writer Arundhati Roy’s involve- crossroads of tradition and modernity, commu- Mongolia… The film depicts the classical ment in the protest campaign against the still- nism and global capitalism. Through the daily struggle between tradition and modernity, pending Narmada Dam Project in central India, struggles of two young men, Jenya and Sasha, yet avoids moralizing.”—The Jutland Post which will displace up to a million people, and the film reveals a Mongolia beyond the stereo- “Visually stunning! An understated but disrupt land, water and energy resources for types of wild horses and wandering nomads. powerful film that captures something of the millions more. The film shows how Roy—author The city is a kaleidoscopic snapshot of a society in tension between the vivid dreams and dreary of The God of Small Thing and Power Politics— the midst of a radical transformation. With huge realities of young people in so many parts of uses her fame to stand up to multinational sections of the rural population migrating, the the ‘non-industrial world.’” corporations and the Indian government. population of the city has exploded. The Russian —Visual Anthropology As it illustrates the potentially devastating “A moving, vividly potent film... Highly built concrete housing blocks are surrounded by “Excellent… illustrates contemporary consequences for displaced Indians and shows Recommended!”—Video Librarian vast tent cities, and parking lots are jammed with problems of economic and cultural change... the enthusiasm Roy generates among common everything from the hottest new Japanese cars to “Excellent! Required viewing!” a film that appeals to the senses, engaging people, DAM/AGE also explores issues of devel- decrepit Russian jalopies operating as taxis. —H-Environment Discussion Network the viewer from beginning to end.” opment and globalization and the urgent need As THE WILD EAST follows Jenya and Sasha —Anthropology Review Database for state accountability and freedom of speech. 2004 American Sociological Association Film Festival through a series of financial ventures, it 2004 Jean Rouch Award Winner, 50 minutes color 2002 cc becomes clear that their hopes and dreams are American Anthropological Association | | Sale/DVD: $390 | Order #GE08-04 not so different from young men everywhere. 54 minutes | color | 2002 Set at a contemporary junction at which many Sale/DVD: $390 | Order #GE08-03 societies worldwide stand, THE WILD EAST is a narrative of the struggle to realize dreams in the The Dreamers Of Arnhem Land face of cold reality, and reveals that despite A Film by Christopher Walker different geographies and cultures, these hopes and dreams are something we all share. THE DREAMERS OF ARNHEM LAND is the “Reveals the complex meanings of sustain- remarkable story of two Aboriginal elders, Stuart able development as it plays out on the and Valerie Ankin, who set out to save their ground, providing a provocative springboard community from cultural extinction. Combining for discussion of theoretical issues and the traditional knowledge and contemporary scien- practical aspects of social and environmental tific expertise, Stuart and Valerie marketed change.”—Ellen Percy Kraly, Professor of natural medicines, plants and seeds, fruit juices Geography, Colgate University and other organic products, thereby creating an 2007 FIFO (International Festival economic incentive for younger Aborigines to of Pacific Films), Tahiti return to their ancestors’ lands on Australia’s 50 minutes | color | 2005 North Coast. Sale/DVD: $390 | Order #GE08-05 The film reveals how the modern synergy of “blackfella’s knowledge and whiteman’s knowledge” has not only encouraged a revival of Aboriginal culture and spiritual traditions but also ensured conservation of ancestral land and its natural resources.

2 3 FIRST RUN/ICARUS FILMS SEE PAGE 31 FOR ORDERING INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY The Price Of Aid For Man Must Work or the End of Work A Film by Jihan El Tahri Directed by Jean-Claude Bürger A National Film Board of Canada Production

The 20th century has seen the creation of colossal wealth and exploding economies. But the days of industrial mass employment are over. In the global economy, human resources are being replaced by technology. The film analyzes globalization in the context of the supply and demand for labor and the increasing migratory movement of workers. FOR MAN MUST WORK raises crucial questions “A very disturbing portrait… An extraordi- about the future of work. Besides personal narily provocative examination.” stories, we also hear from experts such as —Labor History Journal Vivianne Forrester, author of The Economic Horror; Jeremy Rifkin, American economist and “Highly Recommended… a superb piece of author of The End of Work; and sociologist work that gives a thorough assessment of Ricardo Petrella. Filmed in the U.S., Canada, globalization in the context of supply and France and Mexico, the film shows how living demand for labor.” and working conditions are deteriorating for —Educational Media Reviews Online Every day the U.S. donates millions of tons of U.S. aid programs, rather than assisting devel- many people. 52 minutes | color | 2001 cc food to famine victims and other starving people oping nations to become self-reliant, primarily Sale/DVD: $390 | Order #GE08-07 in the world’s poorest countries. This provocative serve to implicate them in a globalization documentary, through an in-depth case study of process that finally does more harm than good, a recent famine crisis in Zambia, shows how endangering their health, environment and these aid programs may address an immediate economies. Working Women of the World crisis but at the same time can create long- A Film by Marie France Collard “A Winner! Informative, well-balanced, and term problems for the recipient nation. credible... it should be acquired by libraries Focusing on Levi Strauss, WORKING WOMEN THE PRICE OF AID reveals the vast bureaucratic of every college offering courses in public OF THE WORLD follows the relocation of network of American aid agencies involved in the administration, agricultural studies, and garment production from Western countries to “hunger business,” one in which rich countries political science.”—Catholic Library World nations such as Indonesia, the Philippines, and benefit from the problems of poor countries. “Highly Recommended!... Turkey, where low wages are the rule and U.S. aid policies are explained in interviews profoundly disturbing.” employee rights are nonexistent. with representatives from the U.S. Agency for —Educational Media Reviews Online The film introduces us to women like Yanti, a International Development, the Coalition for 26-year-old Indonesian who works ten hours a Food Aid, CARE, the World Bank, the Farm and 2005 African Studies Association day, six days a week, for $60 a month, and Foreign Agriculture Service, the Food for Peace Film Festival also presents the stories of her Western Program, and U.S. government officials. 2004 International Film Festival on Human Rights (Geneva) counterparts who are losing their jobs, such as Zambian government officials, including former Maria Therese, a former union representative in 55 minutes color 2004 and present Ministers of Agriculture, as well as | | 2004 National Women’s Studies Sale/DVD: $390 | Order #GE08-06 the Levi’s factory in Yser La Basse, France. Zambian farmers, explain how foreign food Association Film Festival WORKING WOMEN OF THE WORLD puts these donations perpetuate a state of dependency 2003 Association for women’s stories into the larger history and among African and other Third World countries, Asian Studies Film Festival development of globalization. undercutting local agriculture and development 53 minutes | color | 2000 projects. Sale/DVD: $390 | Order #GE08-08

4 5 FIRST RUN/ICARUS FILMS CALL TOLL FREE: 800.876.1710 ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY Tambogrande: Mangos, Murder, Mining The Battle Of Chernobyl A Film by Ernesto Cabellos & Stephanie Boyd A Film by Thomas Johnson

possibility of a secondary explosion of the still- smoldering magma, whose radioactive clouds would have rendered Europe uninhabitable. The government effort to prevent such a catastrophe lasted for more than seven months and sacrificed the lives of thousands of soldiers, miners and other workers. THE BATTLE OF CHERNOBYL On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear recounts these harrowing events through newly Power Plant in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat available films and photos taken in and around exploded and began spewing radioactive smoke the plant, computer animation, and interviews and gas. More than 40,000 residents in the with participants and eyewitnesses. immediate area were exposed to intense “Powerful… an important film.” radioactive fallout. —Bruce Thompson, American Society for In 1999, the residents of Tambogrande, a small uses scenes of mass demonstrations, interviews Based on top-secret government documents Environmental History Newsletter town in northern Peru, learned that the Fujimori and commentary from participants on both sides that came to light only after the collapse of Best Documentary, government had secretly granted mining conces- of the conflict, statements by national politi- the Soviet Union in 1991, THE BATTLE OF 2006 Prix Italia Festival CHERNOBYL reveals a systematic cover-up of sions on their land to the North American corpo- cians, Manhattan Minerals corporate videos, 94 minutes | color | 2006 ration, Manhattan Minerals. The company’s plans archival footage, testimony from an environ- the true scope of the disaster, including the Sale/DVD: $440 | Order #GE08-10 for an open-pit gold mine would involve reloca- mental scientist and a Wall Street stockbroker. tion of roughly half of the town’s residents and In the ongoing history of attempts by multina- contaminate the soil and ground water in this tional corporations to exploit Latin America’s Blowing Up Paradise agricultural region famous for its fruit orchards. A Film by Ben Lewis natural resources, TAMBOGRANDE is a rare Aware of the devastating environmental and success story, one demonstrating how ordinary BLOWING UP PARADISE uses color archival French government officials, scientists, and health consequences of a mining operation in people can defeat government and corporate footage to chronicle France’s explosion of nuclear advisors illuminate France’s political the Peruvian town of Choropampa, the residents collusion. various nuclear devices in the idyllic Moruroa agenda of the era as well as its continuing of Tambogrande organized The Defense Front to 2007 One World International Human Atoll in French Polynesia, in violation of the denial of responsibility for the social devasta- protect their town. Rights Documentary Film Festival international test ban treaty, from 1966 to tion wrought and its refusal to pay any In TAMBOGRANDE, the producers of Choropampa: 2006 International Documentary 1995. Interviews with former and current compensation to former test workers. The Price of Gold (also distributed by First Run/ Film Festival Amsterdam “Remarkable…compelling…one of the best Icarus Films) follow the Tambogrande residents’ Jury Award, 2007 International Festival documentaries on the atomic age to appear five-year-long struggle to thwart the Peruvian of Dignity and Work in a very long time…ideal for classroom government’s connivance with corporate plans 2007 Green Film Festival International, use.”—Gabrielle Hecht, H-France that would despoil their land and destroy their Seoul, South Korea 60 minutes color 2005 livelihoods. | | 85 minutes | color | 2006 Sale/DVD: $390 | Order #GE08-11 In telling this story of the starkly dramatic Sale/DVD: $440 | Order #GE08-09 showdown between the popular will and multinational-corporate interests, TAMBOGRANDE 6 7 FIRST RUN/ICARUS FILMS SEE PAGE 31 FOR ORDERING INFORMATION ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY Inheritance: A Fisherman’s Story The Ister A Film by Peter Hegedus A Film by David Barison & Daniel Ross

When a dam burst at a Romanian goldmine in “An excellent film for the global environ- In 1942, as the tide of the war was turning early 2000, more than 100,000 tons of cyanide mental history.” against Germany, philosopher Martin Heidegger was released into the Tisza River, devastating —H-Environment Discussion Network lectured at Freiburg University on the poetry its ecology as well as the livelihoods of subsis- Best Documentary Award, of Friedrich Hölderlin, especially his poem tence fishermen in neighboring Hungary. This 2004 Real Life on Film Festival “The Ister,” the ancient Greek name for the spill created Central Europe’s worst ecological Danube River. 75 minutes | color | 2003 disaster since Chernobyl. Sale/DVD: $398 | Order #GE08-12 In the form of a journey up the Danube, the INHERITANCE follows fisherman Balazs longest river in the European Union, which Meszaros as he struggles with the effects of flows through ten countries, from its mouth in the disaster on his own community, and Romania to its source in the Black Forest, By drawing the places and times of the river into attempts to confront the corporate forces THE ISTER traces some of the most challenging a constellation with Heidegger’s thought, THE behind the mining operation aspects of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger as ISTER invites the viewer to participate in some of well as the history and current affairs throughout As INHERITANCE follows Balazs’s efforts to the most provocative questions facing Europe and this region of Central and Eastern Europe. preserve a way of life, and documents his trans- the world today. These questions—of home and formation from quiet fisherman into a man who Winding through the shattered remains of the place, culture and memory, of technology and stands alone against huge multinational corpora- former Yugoslavia, through a Hungary busily ecology, of politics and war—concern us today tions, it exposes the environmental and human restoring its national mythology, and through a just as much as they did Heidegger in 1942. consequences of unregulated globalization. Germany that is both the heart of the new “A stimulating three-hour journey in time, Europe and the ghost of the old one, the Danube space and the mind.” itself is the question of the film. THE ISTER —Philip French, The Observer features stunning natural vistas along the river’s 2005 WaterWays Conference on the An Injury To One nearly 2,000-mile length, as well as ancient A Film by Travis Wilkerson Confluence of Art, Science, Policy, & Greek ruins, the Mauthausen concentration Philosophy camp, Yugoslavian bridges devastated by NATO AN INJURY TO ONE provides a compelling the safety of its employees (mortality rates in 189 minutes | color | 2004 glimpse of a particularly volatile moment in the mines were higher than in the trenches of bombings, and King Ludwig’s Walhalla Temple. Sale/DVD: $490 | Order #GE08-14 early 20th century American labor history: Europe) led to the arrival of Wobbly organizer the rise and fall of Butte, Montana. Frank Little. The film draws a connection between the unsolved murder of the “labor agitator” and Butte’s history was entirely shaped by its exploita- the attempted “murder” of the town itself. tion by the Anaconda Mining Company, which, at the height of WWI, produced ten percent of the “The most exciting documentary of the world’s copper from the town’s depths. War profi- season. Passionate, persuasive, and beauti- teering and the company’s extreme indifference to fully designed.”—The New York Sun Big Sky Award, 2004 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 53 minutes | c/b&w | 2002 Sale/DVD: $390 | Order #GE08-13

8 9 FIRST RUN/ICARUS FILMS CALL TOLL FREE: 800.876.1710 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY PALEOGEOGRAPHY The Prize Of The Pole Coincidence In Paradise A Film by Staffan Julén A Film by Matthias Von Gunten

This documentary accompanies the Along the way Robert E. Peary II visits research Why on Earth are there Human Beings? The fact “Excellent!... succeeds both as a film and as Inuit hunter Hivshu, a.k.a. Robert E. libraries and other historical sites in an effort to that we exist has always been taken for granted, an educational tool... two thumbs up.” Peary II, on a quest to trace the story learn the truth about mysteries surrounding the and, thanks to Darwin, we also know that in all —Journal of Human Evolution of his great grandfather and his other ances- preservation of his ancestors’ skeletons and probability we are descendants of some ape-like “Interviews these famous scientists in their tors, including the Eskimo family the famous brains. His exploration reveals a darker side of his creature. But how did this descent, from ape to work environments, giving you insight into Arctic explorer brought back with him to New legendary great-grandfather, especially the human man, come about? Are there any signs that their research and thought processes… this York as part of an exhibit at the American price paid for one man to realize his dream. Nature intended it this way? film would be an asset to an upper-level Museum of Natural History in 1897. “Well-made and often poignant... COINCIDENCE IN PARADISE investigates these college anthropology course studying THE PRIZE OF THE POLE uses archival footage, highly recommended.”—Video Librarian and other fascinating questions through inter- human origins. Recommended.” photos and audio recordings to chronicle Peary’s views with world-renowned scientists, and —Educational Media Reviews Online “First rate... enthusiastically recommended.” exploration of the Arctic and his still controversial captures their work-in-progress with stunning —Educational Media Reviews Online “Succeeds admirably in its exploration of the 1909 claim to be the first man to reach the North cinematography. The film presents, in the field, evolutionary roots of humans… For those Pole. The film also explores the activities of Franz “An engaging experience… elegant and some of the most influential scholars working seeking a thoughtful, meditative treatment Boas, the “father” of American anthropology, moving… comments on anthropology, today, including paleontologist Dr. Maeve of human evolution, this film will serve very who viewed the Eskimos, as “living fossils” for colonialism and multi-culturalism.” Leakey, biologist Dr. Christophe Boesch, anthro- well.”—Palaeontologia Electronica scientific study, focusing on the fate of the six —Copenhagen Documentary Festival Jury pologist John Gurche, fossil collector Kamoya 2000 Award of Excellence, Eskimos who traveled to New York with Peary. Amnesty Award, 2007 Copenhagen Kimeu, and paleontology professors Tim White Society for Visual Anthropology International Documentary Film Festival and Elisabeth Vrba. Peary’s great-grandson meets with tribal elders 88 minutes color 1999 cc | | in Greenland, who recount ancient stories of the 78 minutes | c/b&w | 2006 From fossil rich desert gorges to laboratories, Sale/DVD: $440 | Order #GE08-16 Arctic explorer’s expeditions, his fathering of Sale/DVD: $440 | Order #GE08-15 from primeval rain forests to the sculptor’s two children with an Inuit woman, and the often studio, COINCIDENCE IN PARADISE delves into unethical zeal with which he pursued his scientific the million year mystery of our origins, seeking interests. In New York he meets with officials at the latest discoveries that may answer the the American Museum of Natural History and The question—What exactly was it that first initi- Explorers Club, and another of Peary’s grandsons. ated our genesis, our species’ actual birth? 10 11 FIRST RUN/ICARUS FILMS SEE PAGE 31 FOR ORDERING INFORMATION POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY Between Midnight And The Rooster’s Crow Energy War A Film by Nadja Drost A Film by Shuchen Tan, IJsbrand van Veelen & Rudi Boon

BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND THE ROOSTER’S CROW investigates the EnCana Corporation’s development of a heavy crude oil pipeline from the Amazon across the earthquake-prone Andes to the Pacific coast for export. Filmmaker Nadja Drost follows the cross-country route of the pipeline, along the way interviewing farmers, indigenous community representatives and environmental activists who recount forced relocation, imprisonment, and intimidation by the Ecuadorian police and army who protect EnCana’s pipeline. “Remarkable! Brave! Uncovers evidence of Avoiding government and corporate security pollution, coercion, and corruption.” agents, Drost documents unsafe construction, —indieWIRE In a world in which the U.S. and Europe are addicted to oil and gas, toxic waste, and contamination of rivers, as 2006 American Sociological Association well as the affects on Ecuadorians (skin cancer, Film Festival and those increasingly scarce resources are controlled by authoritarian regimes miscarriages and birth defects) and the 66 minutes | color | 2005 destruction of wildlife and natural preserves. Sale/DVD: $348 | Order #GE08-17 in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria and Russia, the geopolitical ramifications have upset the traditional balance of power between nations. The Diaries Of Yossef Nachmani ENERGY WAR reveals precisely how the A Film by Dalia Karpel economic importance of fossil fuels affects international politics and becomes a powerful During the 1930s and 1940s, Yossef “Fascinating! A fine tool of foreign policy. ENERGY WAR concludes by investigating the Nachmani, director of the Jewish balance between facts and search for alternatives to our dependency on National Fund in the Galilee, acquired ideology.”—Haaretz The film profiles newly emergent “superpowers” oil, featuring interviews with economists, stock as much land from Arabs as possible in such as Iran, a rogue regime that Western “The sheer historical market traders, and new energy entrepreneurs order to establish Jewish settlements. democracies must politically tolerate to assure weight of the material who discuss the pros and cons of such possible THE DIARIES OF YOSSEF NACHMANI access to its oil, and Venezuela, where President presented raises fasci- substitutes as biofuels, hydropower, nuclear utilizes rare archival footage, interviews Hugo Chavez has nationalized the oil industry, nating questions.” and solar energy. with eyewitnesses and participants and which boasts the largest untapped oil field in the —Lisa Nesselson, Variety Israeli historian Benny Morris. world. Through interviews with Russian and As China, Africa, Latin America and even Saudi Georgian government officials, ENERGY WAR Arabia are preparing for a “green” future, it’s The result is a firsthand account of the shows how oil was used as a political weapon in clear that a world of new energy sources will early years of Zionism, Jewish emigra- the struggle between an economically revitalized reshape the global balance of political power. tion to Palestine, and the struggle over Russia and its former Soviet Republic. the land, exemplified through the story 78 minutes | color | 2007 Sale/DVD: $398 | Order #GE08-19 of Tiberius, the first mixed city whose Thomas Friedman (author of The Lexus and the Arab inhabitants were expelled during the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization and The course of the War of Independence. Geography World is Flat) analyzes the political concept of Professor Danny Gur details the history of this “petro authoritarianism” and Kenneth Deffeyes conflict, including a major land grab by Israelis (Hubbert’s Peak: The Impending World Oil one day before a U.N. Resolution that dispos- 60 minutes | c/b&w | 2005 Shortage and Beyond Oil) explains the “Peak sessed Arabs could return to their land. Sale/DVD: $390 | Order #GE08-18 Oil” phenomenon, the point at which the earth’s supply of oil begins its terminal decline. 12 13 FIRST RUN/ICARUS FILMS CALL TOLL FREE: 800.876.1710 POPULATION GEOGRAPHY POPULATION GEOGRAPHY Now on Chain Of Love Mayan Voices: American Lives A Film by Marije Meerman A Film by Olivia Carrescia

CHAIN OF LOVE examines the emigration of Since childcare workers in the U.S. are poorly Set in Indiantown, Florida, MAYAN VOICES: “A wonderful resource for teachers, students, Filipina women to the U.S. as maids and paid and not highly respected, it is immigrant AMERICAN LIVES contrasts the experiences of policy makers, and ordinary citizens who nannies for American families where both women from the Third World who are increas- Mayan refugee families who fled the violence in want to better understand the dynamics of parents work, and how this migration affects ingly fulfilling the need for childcare and Guatemala in the early 1980s, with the strug- the ‘new immigration’ to the U.S. and its the women, their families in the Philippines, and maternal love. The film reveals that Filipina gles of those continuing to arrive in search of impact on American communities.” families in the West. servants are often not able to return home for better lives. The film demonstrates the impact —Norma Stoltz Chinchilla, Professor of years at a time, and much of the money they 5,000 new immigrants with a foreign language Sociology, California State University Long Beach send home to support their families is used to and culture is having on the still predominantly 1995 American Anthropological hire local help to care for their own children. white community. Association Conference “An excellent documentary.” MAYAN VOICES: AMERICAN LIVES explores —Asian Educational Media Service’s issues of identity, cultural integration, migration, ‘News and Reviews’ and social change, in the process breaking 2003 Award of Excellence, through refugee/migrant worker stereotypes. Society for Visual Anthropology 50 minutes | color | 2001 Sale/DVD: $390 | Order #GE08-20

From The Other Side 56 minutes color 1994 A Film by Chantal Akerman | | Sale/DVD: $390 | Order #GE08-22 Sometimes poor people, risking their lives, leave FROM THE OTHER SIDE illuminates this human everything behind in an attempt to survive, to drama through moving interviews with Mexicans, live elsewhere. But they’re often not wanted many of whom have family members that Taxi To Timbuktu elsewhere. And if they are wanted it’s for their perished attempting to cross the border, as well A Film by Christopher Walker labor, for jobs that no one wants. as concerned U.S. landowners and a local sheriff. Alpha, a New York City taxi driver, comes from “Superior... Recommended.” Renowned filmmaker Chantal Akerman chroni- “Sensitive portraiture and investigative Batama, a village in the poorest region of Mali, —Educational Media Reviews Online cles the plight of Mexican immigrants in the journalism.”—Chicago Reader one of the the poorest countries on earth. Since border town of Agua Prieta, Sonora, where Certificate of Merit, 1995 2003 Award of Merit in Film, the 1973 drought, there has never been enough Chicago Film Festival people from all over Mexico wait in limbo before Latin American Studies Association rain—the rivers have dried up, the animals attempting to cross over illegally, and U.S. 99 minutes | color | 2002 have died, the trees are gone and the fields landowners in neighboring Douglas, Arizona, a Sale/DVD: $440 | Order #GE08-21 have turned to desert. The men of Batama have town ringed by mountains and desert plains. gone abroad, hoping to earn enough to keep the women and children alive. Like Alpha, they started in France, where Africans were welcome to the jobs native French didn’t want. But when France fell on hard times, the men dispersed to New York and even Tokyo, where they work in dry cleaning, restaurants, and construction—and earn double 51 minutes | color | 1994 the money they would in other cities. Sale/DVD: $285 | Order #GE08-23 14 15 FIRST RUN/ICARUS FILMS SEE PAGE 31 FOR ORDERING INFORMATION RELIGIOUS GEOGRAPHY REMOTE SENSING The Bible Unearthed: The Cow Jumped Over The Moon The Making Of A New Religion A Film by Christopher Walker A Film Series by Thierry Ragobert The Bible is both a religious and historical work, but how much is myth and how much is history? When and why was the Old Testament written, and by whom? What do contemporary archaeologists know about the Patriarchs? The Exodus? The Conquest of Canaan? Kings David and Solomon? Where do the people of Israel originally come from? THE BIBLE UNEARTHED is a four-part series based on the best-selling book The Bible Switzerland, and the U.S., from the greatest Unearthed by Israël Finkelstein (Professor of museums, including the Louvre, the Museum of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University) and Neil To make way for rice farming, the Fulani Cairo, the Museum of Jerusalem, and the Silberman (Director of the Ename Centre for nomads of West Africa must move their cattle British Museum. Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation). herds seasonally, but this annual migration has The four episodes of THE BIBLE UNEARTHED— been disrupted by years of drought. Traditional An archaeological and biblical investigation, “The Patriarchs,” “The Exodus,” “The Kings” and routes may not yield green pastures and the film visits digs in Egypt, Jordan and Israel, “The Book”—show how the efforts of contem- enough water for the people and their cattle to including Megiddo, the cradle of biblical archae- porary archaeologists are helping us to under- survive the dry season. Enter modern satellite ology, where 25 strata recording 7,000 years of stand the stories of the Bible in their political, imagery, and with it, the ability to see the entire history have been excavated. This fascinating geographical, historical and cultural contexts. region and its resources from space. exploration of biblical history uses archival footage of previous archaeological excavations, “An excellent series.” THE COW JUMPED OVER THE MOON documents From the traditions of the cow-herder in the maps, biblical illustrations and computer anima- —Educational Media Reviews Online the interaction between the tradition-based desert, to the expertise of the NASA space- tion, revealing ancient architecture, cuneiform knowledge of West African nomads and the scientist, THE COW JUMPED OVER THE MOON “A genuine work of scholarship as well as tablets and other rare artifacts. advanced technological knowledge of the U.S., poses important questions about the nature of film art.” represented by satellite dishes operated by knowledge and technology, autonomy against THE BIBLE UNEARTHED features interviews with —Dr. Jim West, Biblical Studies Resources agencies such as NASA and NOAA (National conformity, localization versus globalization. It archaeological specialists from the Levant as 4 x 52 minutes | color | 2005 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency). asks whether it is possible to create a fusion well as biblical scholars from France, Canada, Sale/DVD: $490 | Order #GE08-24 between learning from experience and employing The satellite program is an initial step in the outside expertise as a means of traversing our “Mission to Planet Earth”—a comprehensive geography and saving our environment. program of environmental monitoring by NASA satellites. At Lockheed-Martin and NASA’s “A wonderful instance of how technology Goddard Space Center, scientists explain the can assist in efforts to save the environ- technology and theory behind this program. ment, climate, and diversity of the world... Highly recommend!” —Educational Media Reviews Online Winner of the Public Prize, 2000 Festival de Pastoralisme et Grands Espaces 52 minutes | color | 1999 Sale: $390 | Order #GE08-25

16 17 FIRST RUN/ICARUS FILMS CALL TOLL FREE: 800.876.1710 TOURISM GEOGRAPHY TOURISM GEOGRAPHY Can’t Do It In Europe Keeping It Real A Film by Charlotta Copcutt, Anna Weitz & Anna Klara Åhrén A Film by Sunny Bergman

This offbeat documentary examines the growing “Fascinating! Recommended!” malaise of people in many Western societies, —Educational Media Reviews Online where daily lives and personal relationships are 2005 American Sociological Association experienced primarily through technology and Film Festival media representations, generating a gnawing 51 minutes | color | 2004 sense of philosophical dissatisfaction and a Sale/DVD: $348 | Order #GE08-27 desire for a greater sense of “authenticity.” One result has been the development of an “experience economy,” in which companies package “authentic” experiences, a chance to witness or even participate in real-life adventures. The filmmaker examines this phenomenon, both in her own life and that of many others.

Living Memory: Six Sketches Of Mali Today A Film by Susan Vogel Produced by Susan Vogel, Samuel Sidibé, Eric Engles & the Musée National du Mali

“A must see film for... students of African art and culture.”—Mary Jo Arnoldi, Curator, CAN’T DO IT IN EUROPE portrays the new “Accessible to those first being introduced to African Art and Culture, National Museum of phenomenon of “reality tourism,” whereby bored anthropology, it is also provocative and Natural History, Smithsonian Institution American or European travelers seek out real-life engaging for senior students able to address 2004 American Anthropological Association experiences as exciting tourist “adventures.” The more fully themes of postcolonialism, the Film Festival film follows a group of such international tourists tourist gaze, authenticity, commodification, 53 minutes | color | 2003 as they visit the mines in Potosi—the poorest globalization, and discourses of Orientalism Sale/DVD: $390 | Order #GE08-28 city in the poorest nation in Latin America— and ‘imperialist nostalgia.’” LIVING MEMORY is a film about Mali’s ancient where Bolivian miners work by hand, just as they —Anthropologica culture, its position in the country’s society did centuries ago, to extract silver from the earth. “An excellent film.” today, and its relationship to Western tourism. Led by their Bolivian tour guide, and walking —Pegi Vail, Anthropologist/Filmmaker/Curator, Samuel Sidibé (Director of the Musée National through constricted, muddy and poorly ventilated Anthropology Department, Columbia University du Mali), the brilliant Malian cinematographer tunnels, breathing fetid air laced with arsenic, 2007 Society for Racine Keita and Susan Vogel (founder of the asbestos and toxic gases, the tourists take in the Visual Anthropology/AAA Film Festival Museum for African Art, New York) provide “sights” with goggle-eyed amazement. unparalleled access and an insider’s vision. 46 minutes | color | 2005 In addition to interviews with the tourists, tour Sale/DVD: $348 | Order #GE08-26 The film is constructed in six sketches, guide, and an elderly retired miner, CAN’T DO IT focusing on Ritual Arts, Culture on Display, IN EUROPE features a discussion by the city’s Style, Architecture, Contemporary Artists and Director of Development, who explains why, in Music. Alternately sensual, ironic, beautiful and order to preserve the authentic “experience” for humorous, the film exposes tensions in a tourists, they don’t want to change or improve culture assailed by modernization, Islam and working conditions for the miners. global tourism. 18 19 FIRST RUN/ICARUS FILMS SEE PAGE 31 FOR ORDERING INFORMATION URBAN GEOGRAPHY URBAN GEOGRAPHY Cul De Sac: A Suburban War Story Lagos/Koolhaas A Film by Garrett Scott A Film by Bregtje van der Haak

“Highly Recommended.” Lagos’ population is expected to reach 24 —Educational Media Reviews Online million people by 2020, which would make it the third largest city in the world. Every hour, “[A] terse, scrupulous film, the footage 21 new inhabitants set out to start a life in the punctuates a bleak tale of a defense-industry city, a life that is highly unpredictable and town’s boom and bust—once a Cold War requires risk taking, networking and improvisa- capital of airplane and missile production, tion as essential strategies for survival. the San Diego suburb has decayed into a strip-mall wasteland.”—The Village Voice Rem Koolhaas—winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize—is a Professor of “Truly extraordinary... a chilling X-ray of the Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard. despair in poor white suburbia.” For the past eleven years Koolhaas and —The Independent Film & Video Monthly students from The Harvard Project on the City In May 1995, Shawn Nelson, a 35-year-old Best Director, 2002 CinemaTexas have come to Lagos, Nigeria regularly to plumber from Clairemont, California, stole a International Film Festival research the type of urban environment that is tank from a nearby National Guard armory and 57 minutes | color | 2001 cc produced by explosive population growth. The went on a rampage through the residential Sale/DVD: $390 | Order #GE08-29 Project on the City is framed by two concepts: streets of his neighborhood, crushing cars and “Highly Recommended! Excellent!” academia’s bewilderment with new forms of lampposts until the cops shot him dead. —Educational Media Reviews Online accelerated urbanization in developing regions CUL DE SAC goes far beyond this bizarre and the maelstrom of redevelopment in existing “Fascinating and provocative… engaging and news story and provides extensive political, urban areas; and, second, the failure of the stimulating viewing!” —Visual Anthropology Review economic and social context that ties Nelson’s design professions to adequately cope with life to the larger story of a working-class these changes. 2004 African Studies Association community in decline. Film Festival LAGOS / KOOLHAAS follows Koolhaas during his 55 minutes color 2002 Newsreels of a fat, happy San Diego in the research in Lagos over a period of two years as | | Sale/DVD: $390 | Order #GE08-30 1950s and 1960s, the perfect representation of he wanders through the city, talking with people middle-class aspirations for economic and recognizing the problems with water, prosperity, are juxtaposed with contemporary electricity and traffic. But instead of judging the images of shuttered defense plants, jobless city to be doomed, he is able to interpret this blue-collar suburbanites, drug abusers, and “culture of congestion” positively, helping to police on patrol. The area’s social ills and its develop a new concept of the big city. changing topography, dating back to WWII and up to recent layoffs, are discussed by histo- rians, real-estate agents and California urban geography professors Doreen Mattingly, Larry Ford and Richard Walker.

20 21 FIRST RUN/ICARUS FILMS CALL TOLL FREE: 800.876.1710 URBAN GEOGRAPHY Madrid Ordering Information A Film by Patricio Guzmán Please refer to Order Numbers The outskirts of Madrid are a mess of anony- on all Orders. mous freeways. But inside the traffic-snarled ring lays the heart of the old city, a place where Sales: DVDs are “leased for the life of the people enjoy the finest things in life: superb DVD” and are licensed with Public Performance food, engaging conversation, and the company Rights for non-commercial and educational of friends. exhibition when no admission fee is charged. A rental fee may be deducted from the sale MADRID is not the typical travelogue, price if the video is purchased within 60 days highlighting must-see tourist spots. Instead it of the rental. captures the feeling of the city and of life for Madrileños. It is a documentary made by a man Previews: Films may be previewed for purchase Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán is best who clearly feels more passion for Madrid than consideration by established video libraries. known for his political documentaries on the for any other city on Earth. Ordering: Submit all orders by purchase order, Pinochet regime. But in MADRID he offers up a 41 minutes | color | 2002 on official institutional letterhead stationery, whimsical, personal view of one of the world’s Sale/DVD: $285 | Order #GE08-31 or pay in advance of shipping. Please refer to truly great cities. Order Numbers on all orders.

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Africa Development Geography Historical Geography Middle East Russia and Eastern Europe The Cow Jumped Can’t Do It In Europe...... 18 The Battle of Chernobyl...... 7 The Bible Unearthed ...... 16 The Battle of Chernobyl...... 7 Over the Moon ...... 17 The Cow Jumped The Bible Unearthed ...... 16 The Diaries of Energy War ...... 13 Lagos/Koolhaas ...... 21 Over the Moon ...... 17 Blowing Up Paradise ...... 7 Yossef Nachmani ...... 12 Inheritance...... 8 Living Memory ...... 19 The Wild East...... 2 Coincidence in Paradise . . . . 11 Energy War ...... 13 The Ister ...... 9 The Price of Aid ...... 4 Economic Geography The Diaries of Playing the News ...... 1 The Wild East...... 2 Yossef Nachmani ...... 12 Agricultural Geography Between Midnight and the Political Geography Social Geography An Injury to One ...... 8 The Cow Jumped Rooster’s Crow ...... 12 Dam/Age ...... 3 Cul de Sac ...... 20 Mayan Voices, American Lives. 15 Over the Moon ...... 17 Can’t Do It In Europe...... 18 From the Other Side ...... 14 For Man Must Work ...... 5 The Prize of the Pole...... 10 The Price of Aid ...... 4 Chain of Love...... 14 An Injury to One ...... 8 An Injury to One ...... 8 Still, the Children Are Here . . . 1 The Dreamers of Arnhem Land . 3 Industrial Geography Playing the News ...... 1 Keeping It Real...... 19 Tambogrande ...... 6 Energy War ...... 13 Cul de Sac ...... 20 The Price of Aid ...... 4 Lagos/Koolhaas ...... 21 From the Other Side ...... 14 Energy War ...... 13 The Prize of the Pole...... 10 Asia Urban Geography An Injury to One ...... 8 For Man Must Work ...... 5 Chain of Love...... 14 Population Geography The Battle of Chernobyl...... 7 The Price of Aid ...... 4 An Injury to One ...... 8 Dam/Age ...... 3 The Battle of Chernobyl...... 7 Cul de Sac ...... 20 Taxi to Timbuktu ...... 15 Tambogrande ...... 6 Still, the Children Are Here . . . 1 The Bible Unearthed ...... 16 Lagos/Koolhaas ...... 21 The Wild East...... 2 Working Women of the World. . 5 Taxi to Timbuktu ...... 15 The Cow Jumped Madrid...... 22 First Run / Icarus Films Over the Moon ...... 17 Working Women of the World. . 5 Environmental Geography Latin America Taxi to Timbuktu ...... 15 32 Court Street, 21st Floor Cultural Geography Between Midnight and the Can’t Do It In Europe...... 18 Dam/Age ...... 3 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Rooster’s Crow ...... 12 United States Can’t Do It In Europe...... 18 Energy War ...... 13 The Diaries of The Cow Jumped Yossef Nachmani ...... 12 Cul de Sac ...... 20 The Dreamers of Arnhem Land . 3 From the Other Side ...... 14 Phone: (718) 488-8900 Over the Moon ...... 17 The Dreamers of Arnhem Land . 3 From the Other Side ...... 14 The Ister ...... 9 Tambogrande ...... 6 Toll Free: (800) 876-1710 The Dreamers of Arnhem Land . 3 Lagos/Koolhaas ...... 21 An Injury to One ...... 8 Keeping It Real...... 19 Medical Geography Fax: (718) 488-8642 The Price of Aid ...... 4 Religion Geography Mayan Voices, American Lives. 15 Living Memory ...... 19 Blowing Up Paradise ...... 7 [email protected] The Diaries of Taxi to Timbuktu ...... 15 The Battle of Chernobyl...... 7 Yossef Nachmani ...... 12 www.frif.com An Injury to One ...... 8 Living Memory ...... 19 22 23 PRSRT STD U.S. Postage PAID RIPON PRINTERS

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