All videos by CLAIRE BURCH
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Nepal
at Risk by Elizabeth Burch Color / Sound / 60 minutes ISBN 0-916147-68-1 / $24.95 Produced on location in the Himalayan Kingdom in 1992, this beautifully filmed video examines environmental problems that exist in Nepal, home to the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest. The World Bank lists Nepal as one of the poorest countries in the world, with a per-capita income of $160. Out of a population of over 19 million Nepalese, 90 percent are subsistence farmers scraping out a living in remote mountain villages. An increase in tourism, coupled with population growth and an inequality of resources, has had a negative impact on Nepal’s fragile ecosystem. Threatened by environmental disaster, today, the Himalayan kingdom is no longer the “Shangri-La” touted in the tourist guidebooks. As the need for answers to the eco-crisis in the Indian subcontinent increase, the Nepalese people work to reverse the environmental destruction of their land. Environmental experts find that only a holistic approach toward development will lead to sustainable growth accompanied by environmental protection. With poverty alleviation playing a critical role in the development process, plans to protect Nepal’s natural resources must address local communities’ basic needs. By highlighting environmental projects in the field, Nepal at Risk identifies several successful strategies in nature conservation. The program shows that when citizens are included in the development process, solutions toward saving the environment become possible. Note: The filmmaker, now a professor at Sonoma State University in California, spent her teenage years at Westbeth, the artist’s housing project in New York City, influenced by the four artists in this catalogue. |
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The
History of the Tele Times Color / Sound / 30 minutes ISBN 1-58790-046-7 / $24.95 The Tele Times, an irreverent alternative magazine, was produced and edited by B.N. Duncan, later to found and produce – first with Wild Billy Wolf, later with Ace Backwards (also the creator of Twisted Image and a noted cartoonist) – the Telegraph Avenue Street Calendar. Back Issues of the Calendar as well as books by BN Duncan and Ace backwards are available from Twisted mage, P.O.B. 12642, Berkeley, CA 94712. email: acebackwords2002@yahoo.com. |
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Invitation
To A Rave Color / Sound / 60 minutes ISBN 1-58790-049-1 / $24.95 These interviews and hard beat peeks at a few Bay Area Raves (those strobe lit ecstasy popped all nighters) give the viewer a bird’s eye look at the Scene (which has clearly replaced the square dances of old) as a “now” experience. |
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