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Last night at the California Academy of Sciences, the SF Green Film Festival hosted a pre-party for the main event, which runs March 3-6 and boasts 70 films making their world premiers. The Bay Citizen, being a sponsor of the event, joined the festivities in the spirit of collaboration and having a good time.
The Film Festival offered an array of shorts, screened loop-style in the Academy's Forum theater and we checked out a half dozen that inspired 'ooohs' and 'aaahhhh's' and some chuckles for their creative approaches to video and topics with a green tinge. Like Bill Plympton's short
Mickey Smith, a noted surf photographer, directed and starred in "Dark Side of the Lens," a short that was a poetic tribute to the auteur's passion for the sea, with stunning views of surfing and the ocean. Somber but beautiful.
For a lighter, more didactic and flat out hilarious offering, kudos go to a music video-cum-educational tool created by a crew of talented producers, rappers, singers and techies for Green Sangha and New Media Message. It is called, "Plastic State of Mind," and it could be called the anthem of the Ban the Plastic Bag movement. Which if you live in the Bay Area, you most likely have some awareness of, given that San Francisco has banned them and San Jose and Marin are close behind. Here it is. You'll never look at plastic grocery bags in the same way.
© The Bay Citizen, 2012
