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Pageant
Theatre
Snow
Goose Festival Benefit Showing
January
21 and 22, 6:30pm |
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join us for two special showings of "Winged Migration" as a wonderful
introduction to what the Snow Goose Festival is all about. The Pageant
Theatre, 351 E Sixth Street, is the place! The dates are Wednesday, January
21 and Thursday, January 22. One showing only per evening, starting at
6:30pm. Admission is $7, with tickets sold at the door only. Net proceeds
will be used to support the operation of the 5th Annual Snow Goose Festival.
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| WINGED
MIGRATION
"For
eighty million years, birds have ruled the skies, seas and earth. Each
spring, they fly vast distances. Each fall, they fly the same route back.
This film is the result of four years of following their amazing odysseys,
in the northern hemisphere and then the south, species by species, flying
over seas and continents." - Jacques Perrin
(from "Winged Migration") |
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one of France's most respected producers (Academy Award Winners "Z" and
"Black and White in Color") and actors ("Z", "Cinema Paradiso," "The Young
Girls of Rochefort," "Donkey Skin" and "The Brotherhood of the Wolf"), Jacques
Perrin has more recently had a highly successful career creating films about
nature, including "Le Peuple Singe" (monkeys) and "Microcosmos" (insects)
and set in exotic locales ("Himalaya"). Now with his penultimate film "Winged
Migration" Perrin takes on his greatest challenge yet: exploring the mystery
of birds in flight. Five teams of people (more than 450 people, including
17 pilots and 14 cinematographers) were necessary to follow a variety of
bird migrations through forty countries and each of the seven continents.
The film covers landscapes that range from the Eiffel Tower and Monument
Valley to the remote reaches of the Arctic and the Amazon. All manner of
man-made machines were employed, including planes, gliders, helicopters,
and balloons, and numerous innovative techniques and ingeniously designed
cameras were utilized to allow the filmmakers to fly alongside, above, below
and in front of their subjects. The result is a film of staggering beauty
that opens one's eyes to the ineffable wonders of the natural world. |
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