[Sdpg] NEW FILM /FIRST EARTH Film Uncompromising Ecological Architecture

Sat Dec 18 10:11:08 PST 2010

  NEW FILM /FIRST EARTH Film Uncompromising Ecological Architecture

http://www.davidsheen.com/firstearth/film.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuDkfuziZiI&feature=player_embedded

Film
FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement 
towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter -- 
building healthy houses in the old ways, out of 
the very earth itself, and living together like 
in the old days, by recreating villages. It is a 
sprawling film, shot on location from the West 
Coast to West Africa. An audiovisual manifesto 
filmed over the course of 4 years and 4 
continents, FIRST EARTH makes the case that 
earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the 
world; and that since it still takes a village to 
raise a healthy child, it is incumbent upon us to 
transform our suburban sprawl into eco-villages, 
a new North American dream.
Chocking up over 300,000 hits on YouTube even 
before its official release, FIRST

EARTH is not a how-to film; rather, it's a why-to 
film. It establishes the appropriateness of 
earthen building in every cultural context, under 
all socio-economic conditions, from third-world 
communities to first-world countrysides, from 
Arabian deserts to American urban jungles. In the 
age of environmental and economic collapse, peak 
oil and other converging emergencies, the 
solution to many of our ills might just be 
getting back to basics, focusing on food, 
clothes, and shelter. We need to think 
differently about house and home, for material 
and for spiritual reasons, both the personal and 
the political.

Because we believe that as many people as 
possible should have the option of seeing the 
FIRST EARTH film, regardless of their financial 
abilities, for a limited time only we are making 
beta versions of the 12 chapters of the film 
available over the internet for free! The DVD 
version of the film has high-quality video and 
audio and includes extras.
The individual chapters of the film can also be 
watched separately from one another. It won't 
have the same effect as watching the whole film 
from start to finish, but as part of our vision 
to make the content as accessible as possible, 
the chapters can be viewed one at a time.

Chapters 1 through 12 - The Entire Film
Chapter 1 - What's Wrong With Architecture
Chapter 2 - African Earth
Chapter 3 - American Earth
Chapter 4 - Why Earth
Chapter 5 - Empowering Earth
Chapter 6 - Another Earth Is Possible
Chapter 7 - European Earth
Chapter 8 - Arabian Earth
Chapter 9 - Urban Earth
Chapter 10 - Inner City Earth
Chapter 11 - International Earth
Chapter 12 - Future Earth

Cast
All of the modern cob-building movement's major 
players were interviewed for the documentary. 
Over the course of filming, we have amassed over 
a hundred hours of footage of awe-inspiring cob 
projects and pearls of wisdom from pre-eminent 
thinkers. To learn more about earthen building, 
click on the names below to read transcripts of 
their talks and watch videos of their spoken 
words.
Becky Bee
Katy Bryce & Adam Weismann
Meka Bunch & Dragonfly
Elke Cole
Stuart Cowan
Carole Crews
Salma Samar Damluji
Kiko Denzer
Chellis Glendinning
Richard Heinberg
Alfie Howard
Derrick Jensen
Janell Kapoor
Sun Ray Kelly
Joseph Kennedy
James Howard Kunstler
Mark Lakeman
Ian Marcuse
Kevin McCabe
Bridget Miner & Ellie Miner
Daniel Quinn
Tim Ream
Boots Riley
David Room
Michael G. Smith
Starhawk
Sunflower New Moon
Bob Theis
Andy Thomson
Eugene Tsui

Editing
David Sheen
In addition to authoring the scratch video THE 
RED PILL (2003), David Sheen has been 
documenting, studying, designing, and building 
ecological housing since 2001. He apprenticed 
with Ianto Evans and Linda Smiley at the North 
American School of Natural Building, and at 
Michael Smith's Emerald Earth. He also learned 
biomimicry, the study of nature's design 
principles and its application to human habitats, 
with architect Eugene Tsui.

Music
Ilya Yakovlev
Music composer and producer Ilya Yakovlev, was 
born 29.01.74 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and 
now lives in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Ilya plays and 
composes instrumental music, pursuing different 
styles and exploring all kinds of possibilities 
in search of his unique sound. He has been 
involved in a number of projects with various 
artists, writing songs and movie soundtracks. His 
focus is on instrumental, ambient, and electronic 
music, mainly concentrating on creating mood and 
atmosphere. Additionally, Ilya is a professional 
graphic designer and industrial designer.

Video
Michael Blaha
Ingrid Severson
Petra Janopaul
John Pilgrim
Yakov Levi
Viki Zakharova
Timothy Doh
Julie Haddow
Audio
Hartley Weinberg
Translation
Hasan Murtaza
Zohar Regev
Uri Gordon

Production
Peter Solti
Gregory Greene
Gregory Greene is a Toronto-based filmmaker with 
a background in social and political 
documentaries. His television credits include 
BRAVO!Õs acclaimed series Arts & Minds and 
MuchMusicÕs documentary series Musicians in the 
War Zone. His television film credits include 
Prom Fight: The Marc Hall Story and SuhailÕs 
Jihad. His latest production, The End of 
Suburbia, is an independent film that has caused 
controversy around the world, with rave reviews 
in the mainstream press, from the New York Times 
to The Toronto Star, and a ubiquitous presence 
within the alternative press. It has become the 
informational tool of choice to the growing Peak 
Oil movement, comprised of a wide range of 
industry professionals, NGOs and citizen groups 
spanning the political spectrum.
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