crap, crap

Saw a couple of great films last night.  Actually I watched the second

one this morning. I was still outside when the women watched the first

one.



Laura is a friend I often head into the city with to catch

a film at
Cinematheque. It's a small independent film house in

Winnipeg.  Laura is a botanist and works for a tall grass prairie

preserve not far from where we live.  She met a videographer there not

long ago and got to talking.  It turns out this guy did a couple of

films we had intended to see together but for one reason and another

had missed.  Jeff sent Laura the films on DVD which was pretty cool.



They were directors cuts with technoesque test patterns prior to

rolling the introductions.  I thought that was pretty cool.  Love

those details!



These were both classic Canadian documentary style pieces.  Something

all Canadians should be proud of but few even recognise as something we

dominate globally.  Arguably we set the standards in this genre.



"Crap
Shoot" was all about sewage.  Sweden has learnt some

things we haven't from this method of ignoring our waste.  A tight bit

of film.  I loved it.



"52 min. documentary how sewers have led to sewage pollution the world over."



The other one we watched was
"Haunts of the
Black Masseur" and was all about swimming.  A visually
stunning bit of stock.  A great insight into our history with swimming
through the ages.  Very watchable.



"3 minute documentary film on obsessive open water swimmers based on the book by Charles Sprawson."