Last year, UCSB’s Arts & Lectures successfully combined excellent filmmaking with global awareness by launching the first annual Human Rights Film Festival. This coming Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, May 21-23, the festival returns for round two, once again delivering documentaries and feature films that blend beauty and art with consciousness and consequence. Here’s a rundown.
The ear-splitting roar of a chainsaw throwing showers of splinters and dust up into a cloudless sky penetrates the serene mountain scene. The fresh air’s aroma of sage and wild mint gets overpowered by the reek of grease and oil. The uneven, hardly trampled soil gets unearthed and tamed by a pickax. Gnarled, ancient branches of oak scrub meet their immediate defeat in the jaws of loppers, their shredded remains tossed over steep cliffs. Helmets are worn, sweat pours down faces, hands get cut, eyes fill with dirt, ears ring, muscles grow sore.
The Hawaiian reggae songstress chats with The Indy‘s Matt Kettmann.
Rarely does a film shatter the medium’s traditional techniques and still manage to be enjoyable and insightful. But that’s exactly what Abderrahmane Sissako has done in his brilliant film Bamako, which screens at UCSB on Wednesday, May 16, at 7:30 p.m.
See this photo gallery of yet another gray whale seemingly stuck in the waters off of Santa Barbara’s coastline.
UPDATED AT 2:30 PM: The News-Press‘ most senior South Coast reporter quits.
Maybe we haven’t hit you over the head with this enough, but on Friday, April 20, the brand new independent.com hit virtual newsstands everywhere. Lest you think we’re using this space as a shameless plug for our new online digs, we’re actually trying to get you, our loyal Indy readers, to begin capitalizing on all that the new independent.com has to offer.
Judge James Brown upheld his ruling that denied the News-Press‘ attempts to get this child porn-laden hard drives back.
Denied. That’s Judge James Brown’s tentative ruling in the News-Press‘ attempt to get their child porn
A rally is scheduled to coincide with tomorrow’s attempt by the News-Press to get a computer loaded with child porn back.
