FILM + VIDEO

    Indie Memphis Micro Cinema Club #45

    Indie Memphis Micro Cinema Club #45

    Presented by Indie Memphis Film Festival at Malco Studio On The Square

    November 12, 2008

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    PLAGUES AND PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA
    San Francisco filmmaker Chris Metzler to screen his award-winning film at special Micro Cinema Club presented in collaboration with the Sierra Club.
    MEMPHIS, Tennessee – In collaboration with the Sierra Club Chickasaw Group, Indie Memphis will present a special Micro Cinema Club screening of the award-winning documentary PLAGUES AND PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA, narrated by legendary filmmaker John Waters. This special screening takes places at Malco’s Studio on the Square (2105 Court Avenue) on
    Wednesday, November 12 at 7:30 pm. Filmmaker Chris Metzler will be on hand for a Q&A after the screening. Admission is free and open to the public.


    About the film:
    Once known as the “California Riviera,” the Salton Sea is now called one of America’s worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, coughing up dead fish and birds by the thousands. Created by an engineering error in 1905, reworked in the 50’s as a world class vacation destination for the rich and famous, and then suddenly abandoned after a series of
    hurricanes, floods, and fish die-offs, the Salton Sea has a bittersweet past. Within the ruins of this man-made mistake, a few hardy eccentrics hang on to hope, including a roadside nudist waving at passing European tourists, a man building a religious mountain out of mud and paint, a beer-loving Hungarian Revolutionary Hunky Daddy, and the real-estate
    “Ronald McDonald” known simply as The Landman. Through their perceptions and misperceptions, the strange history and unexpected beauty of the Salton Sea is revealed.

    While PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA covers the historical, economic, political, and environmental issues that face the sea, it more importantly offers up an offbeat portrait of the eccentric and individualistic people who populate its shores. It is an epic western tale of fantastic real estate ventures and failed boomtowns, inner-city gangs fleeing to white small town America, and the subjective notion of success and failure amidst the ruins of the past. Hair-raising and hilarious, part history lesson, part cautionary tale and part portrait of one of the strangest communities you’ve ever seen, this is the American Dream gone as stinky as a dead carp.


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        Malco Studio On The Square

        2105 Court Street
        Memphis, TN 38104

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        Tickets: FREE

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        November 12, 2008

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        7:30 pm

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