Nominated for the 2002 Student
Documentary Academy Award, BECOME THE SKY maps an ecology of power spanning
4,000 miles across Texas. From offshore oil-rigs to the mouth of the Rio
Grande, BECOME THE SKY weaves a web of energy and politics in the context
of war--and capitalism.
West Texas wind-farms. Enron. LBJ. Gulf War. Traffic. Permaculture.
Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant. Padre Island National Seashore.
Cheneys energy plan. Pantex. OPEC. Houston Ship Channel. Childress
Cotton Farmers. Longhorn Pipeline. Supply & Demand. Solar Eclipse.
Election 2000. Napalm. The lunar cycle. Port Arthur. US Fish & Wildlife
Service Law Enforcement Division-Lubbock. The dry mouth of the Rio
Grande.
Like Sun Tzus The Art of War, Dunn's new film is "a loosely linked
set of
observations and models, with only the barest argumentation connecting
them. It does not develop its doctrines through logical demonstration.
Rather, it teaches by analogy and metaphor. We cannot simply pluck its
insights and drop them into our already existing frameworks. We must
develop new ways to use our minds." (Denma Translation Group) |
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