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| Each year, there are so many deserving documentaries we don’t get a chance to show them all. This year, we’re devoting a full week to some of the best we’ve seen recently. | |||||||||||||
| Follow a community activist turned world leader in THE ISLAND PRESIDENT as he fights to save The Maldives from rising ocean waters. Explore the new map of the American south in GENERAL ORDERS NO. 9, a poetic eulogy for lost landscapes. Enter into the world of rabbits trapped in No-Man’s Land in RABBIT A LA BERLIN. Watch Estonians peek under the Iron Curtain via illegal antennas in DISCO AND ATOMIC WAR. Or let the band Sigur Rós rock your face off at a late-night screening of INNI, their new concert documentary… We believe that documentary is more than just non-fiction film, and the films chosen for this series reflect some of the most visionary film-making we’ve seen this year. With the program changing daily — accompanied by discussions with filmmakers, activists, puppeteers, and other passionate people — you can come see one or come see them all. Just drop the remote control, join us for the week, and get inspired.Additional titles include: 5 Broken Cameras, Darwin, This Way of Life, Documentary Shorts by Sam Green, Pink Ribbons Inc, Being Elmo, Hell and Back Again, Resurrect Dead, Ingredients, and more! | |||||||||||||
| * Made possible, in part, by Sally Roy and Peter Nelson’s generous support for documentary screenings | |||||||||||||
Sweet Violets
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| *FREE SHOW with director Tobe Carey In Person* | |||||||||||||
| SWEET VIOLETS tells the forgotten story of the Violet Capitol of the World — Rhinebeck, New York. | |||||||||||||
| In the Victorian era and beyond, violets were the corsage and bouquet flower of choice. At its peak in 1912, growers shipped more than 5 million blooms for Easter by train from Rhinecliff Station, and Sweet Violets like the Marie Louise and Swanley White from Dutchess County dominated the commercial flower market. Gaining and losing momentum according to fashion, the industry slipped into decline until the last of the Violet Kings gave up in 1979. Now, one remaining strip of cultivated violets grows in an anemone greenhouse outside Rhinebeck. In the late winter and early spring deep purple Frey’s Fragrant violets are picked for culinary purposes and bunched for the occasional Valentine’s Day bouquet. From local filmmaker Tobe Carey, SWEET VIOLETS includes interviews with historians and violet growers, along with rare film footage, vintage photographs, 19th century music, postcards, poetry, and art. | |||||||||||||
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