Please join us for a free screening of IF A TREE FALLS, by Marshall Curry (2011) If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front looks behind-the-curtain at the ELF and explores two pressing issues in America today — environmentalism and terrorism. Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thriller, the film interweaves a verite … The Green Screen – If A Tree Falls
Please join Press Street for a free screening of TOXIC SOUP – The Politics of Pollution by Rory Owen Delaney (2010) “Toxic Soup” reveals pictures of environmental pollution throughout America. It’s the politics of pollution as giant corporations manipulate the system to delay environmental reform, endangering the lives of people all over the world for … The Green Screen – TOXIC SOUP
Please join us for a free screening of TAPPED, by Stephanie Soechtig (2010) Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig’s debut feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water. From the … The Green Screen – Tapped
Please join us for a film screening: EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP By Banksy This is the inside story of Street Art – a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many … Exit Through the Gift Shop
Please join us for a film screening: THE DESERT OF FORBIDDEN ART By Amanda Pope & Tchavdar Georgiev This incredible story of how a treasure trove of banned Soviet art worth millions of dollars was stashed in a far-off desert of Uzbekistan develops into a larger exploration of how art survives in times of oppression. … The Desert of Forbidden Art
Please Join Us for a Film Screening: A WALK INTO THE SEA – Danny Williams And The Warhol Factory Director Esther Robinson’s personal inquiry into the truth behind her Uncle Danny Williams’ mysterious 1966 disappearance. Virtually unknown today, Williams was Andy Warhol’s lover and a promising young filmmaker. The discovery of 20 never-before-seen films Williams … A Walk Into The Sea – Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
Please join us for a Film Screening: JEAN-MICHELE BASQUIAT – The Radiant Child Centered on a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Basquiat more than 20 years ago, this definitive documentary chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the young artist. In the crime-ridden NYC of the 1970s, he covers the … Jean-Michele Basquiat: The Radiant Child
By Nathan C. Martin Mutual obsession can make strange bedfellows. For Christopher Schaberg and Mark Yakich, it made a multimedia publishing project. The two professors of English at Loyola University New Orleans share a common infatuation with flight and its cultural and psychological accoutrements. Yakich, an accomplished poet (and previous Room 220 interviewee), possesses a … Travel, security, death, the mundane, strangers, boredom, home, geography: A talk about airports and air travel with Christopher Schaberg and Mark Yakich
Maple Street Book Shop has opened its second satellite store in six months, this time on Ponce de Leon Street, a few doors down from Fair Grinds Coffee Shop, and Canseco’s on the other side. Unlike Maple Street’s Healing Center branch on St. Claude Avenue—which is fairly sprawled, sparse, and awkward—the Bayou Saint John branch … Maple Street Books opens another location, and this one is good
By Nathan C. Martin My bookshelf is full of books I’ve never read. Books are the only things I buy on impulse, and I rarely enter a bookstore I like without buying something. Not only that, but if I like a book I’ve read, I’ll often give it away to a friend. I also move … From the Editor’s Bookshelf: A Room 220 Holiday Gift Guide
