something in the water is a 2008 australian documentary film written and directed by aidan o'bryan .

using live , archival , and interview footage shot in los angeles , melbourne , perth , sydney , and windsor in berkshire , england , it explores the history and environment behind the development of local and nationally acclaimed musical talent in western australia .

the film was funded by perth media production company wbmc , headed by screenwriter/director aidan o'bryan and producer janelle landers .

the film follows the rise to fame of some of western australia 's most successful musicians .

something in the water features more than fifty interviews with bands including little birdy , the waifs , the sleepy jackson , eskimo joe , end of fashion , jebediah , le hoodoo gurus , the panics and red jezebel .

the film asks whether perth 's talented spawn can be attributed to the city 's isolation , the environment or the music scene itself , or whether there is , in fact , something in the water .

something in the water premiered at the astor theatre in perth and had a limited theatrical run in that city .

it later was shown at the fti fremantle film festival and the 2008 wami festival .

an accompanying two-disc compilation of various western australian artists became available via mgm distribution as well as online in january 2009 .

the film was screened on abc2 on 13 may 2009 .

following this national broadcast , the film was released on dvd on 3 july 2009 via mgm distribution .

the dvd includes additional interview footage with eskimo joe , john butler , the triffids , dave faulkner and kim salmon .

some people have noted that the film neglects to mention some of the more notable perth performers from the 1970s and even 1960s .

while johnny young makes an appearance , other performers like glen ingram & the hi-five , bakery , the elks , fatty lumpkin , sid rumpo , dave warner , the dugites and rip torn & the stockings and groundbreaking producer martin clark and his clarion records are completely ignored ( although the dugites do make an appearance on the film 's soundtrack double cd release ) .

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something in the water ( film ) <EOT> you will also receive a “thank you” in the credits of something in the water .

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excellent article covering the backstory to the film in last saturday ' s smh by journalist peter hannam . the online version mentions the film and has a clip from the film ( work in progress in the edit as i write )

miranda lambert has signed on as the executive music producer for the upcoming movie something in the water . the “tin man” singer - songwriter will choose the film’s music and also contribute an original track .

something in the water explores the rock phenomenon that is music in wa . how can the most isolated city in the world have exploded with so many successful bands over the years ? across decades and genres , something in the water asks " what is responsible for the sparkling talent pool ? "

lambert once appeared in a 2012 episode of law & order : svu , playing a victim of assault . her involvement in something in the water stands as her first credit as a film music producer .

news audio # 6 : … a deadly spike in something called legionnaires ' disease .

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marc edwards ( film clip ) : we estimate that the water in about 5 , 000 flint homes is over standards set by the world health organization for lead in water .

in the film the exchange takes place in a law firm’s conference room , but it was actually in a courtroom .

they have identified a high level of interest around the film , the subject of land - - ‐clearing , the law and the “true crime” genre the film adopts .

chris shows off his acting chops well in this clip from the 2013 film “star trek into darkness . ” beware of spoilers if you haven’t seen the film yet .

something in the water is part of a lionsgate initiative to release movies and tv shows starring youtube influencers such as helbig . the movie will be filmed in nashville later in 2017 .

no , to soften water , you need a water softener . the salt used in the brine tank of a water softener does not directly soften the water , but is used to regenerate the resin beads in your water softener . these actually soften the water from your well by removing the hard water ions , calcium , magnesium and iron .

actor joe morton , narrator of “poisoned water , ” discusses the flint water crisis .

the film also has another country - music connection : it marks the feature film directorial debut of trey fanjoy , the music - video director behind many of lambert’s videos , including “vice , ” “the house that built me” and the cinematic “somethin’ bad” with carrie underwood . filming for something in the water will begin in nashville later this year .

fragmented has won best narrative feature at the los angeles new wave international film festival and won a best director award for elford - argent . it also won best narrative feature at the monarch film festival and the borrego springs film festival .

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follow the emergency in flint from the switch in water supply to today’s health crisis .

includes lyrics for all songs written out and autographed by steve , your name in the “thank you’s” of the film , and early viewing access of the film on friday , september 15th .

“something in the water , ” our feature - length documentary , is in the latter stages of post - production . we need your help to cover some of the costs of post - production and marketing for the film . we believe the story it tells , the relationships that unfold , the history it reveals , and the behind - the - scenes look at the making of the record is something you will enjoy .

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something in the water explores the rock phenomenon that is music in wa . how can the most isolated city in the world have exploded with so many successful bands over the years ? across . . . see full summary »

the script for something in the water was also written by cindy mccreery . the film , which marks celebrated country music director fanjoy’s feature debut , will be produced by ken treusch for bleecker street entertainment alongside fanjoy and helbig . jordan gilbert is the creative executive for lionsgate . aquila / wood is casting the film and production will take place in nashville later this year .

walter smith - randolph ( nbc reporter , film clip ) : the issue here is the levels of chlorine in the water . it creates some sort of corrosion .

you won & apos ; t see her onscreen , but miranda lambert will have an important role in the upcoming movie something in the water : the country star has signed onto the project as the executive music producer .

exclusive : miranda lambert has , for the first time , signed on to a film as an executive music producer to oversee music curation and also write an original song . which film ? trey fanjoy ’s friendship comedy something in the water , which is being done through lionsgate digital . in addition , youtube sensation grace helbig has been tapped as one of the stars in the story that revolves around five women in the south who challenge their men to a bass fishing competition . something in the water , co - written and to be directed by fanjoy , is said be in the vein of bridesmaids meets steel magnolias .

the artwork for the 1990 film version of stephen king ' s it features a nightmarish penny the clown .

grace helbig will star in something in the water , which is being produced by fanjoy , helbig and ken treusch for bleecker street entertainnment . helbig is a comedian , actress and author ; she has a development deal with lionsgate , the company at the helm of something in the water , and she previously co - wrote , co - produced and co - starred in dirty 30 and voiced a character in the movie trolls .

every year , the environmental protection agency publishes a drinking water quality report from your local water supplier . follow the link to find the report for your water supply .

also includes the ultimate merch collection and early viewing access of the film on friday , september 15th .

a10 : it is unlikely , but possible . most cabinet x - ray systems used in the united states for security screening are built to be safe for all but the fastest film speeds ( speeds below 1000 ) . multiple exposures of film to even film safe x - ray systems may eventually result in fogging or increased granularity . however , some systems , usually those scanning checked baggage , and some x - ray systems used in other parts of the world are not designed to be film safe . manufacturers are not required by federal regulation to build their systems to be film safe . your film manufacturer should be able to provide more specific recommendations about the storage and transport of exposed and unexposed film .

marc edwards : i knew something like flint was inevitable , based on 10 years ' prior experience in washington d . c .

darnell earley ( flint emergency manager , 2013–2015 , film clip ) : we want to maintain access to a clean , sustainable water source .

we strive for accuracy and fairness . if you see something that doesn ' t look right , contact us !

while radon in water is not a problem in homes served by most public water supplies , it has been found in well water . if you ' ve tested the air in your home and found a radon problem , and you have a well , contact a lab certified to measure radiation in water to have your water tested . radon problems in water can be readily fixed . call your state radon office or the epa drinking water hotline ( 800 - 426 - 4791 ) for more information .

leeanne walters : i started requesting documents from the city . i wanted to know about the water treatment plant and how they were treating the water , what chemicals they were using , what their raw water data was before they treated the water .

cherkeetha love ( flint water response team ) : we ' re passing out water for the residents of flint , for us . we all need the water , because we have lead and different things going on with our water .

u . s . epa , drinking water and ground water statistics , fiscal year 2011 . available at urltoken

narrator : the water crisis in the nation ' s capital started in the early 2000s , when the d . c . water and sewer authority , wasa , and the army corps of engineers made a water treatment switch . and , like flint , they failed to add corrosion control chemicals to the water .

in 2010 , in the first - ever tests for chromium - 6 in u . s . tap water , ewg found the chemical in 31 of 35 cities , with water in 25 cities containing levels above the california public health goal .

in the film " erin brockovich , " the environmental crusader confronts the lawyer of a power company that polluted the tap water of hinkley , calif . , with a carcinogenic chemical called chromium - 6 . when the lawyer picks up a glass of water , brockovich says : “we had that water brought in ‘specially for you folks . came from a well in hinkley . ”

marc edwards : then the mayor of flint went on t . v . , drinking the water , telling everyone in flint the water was safe to drink .

includes early viewing access of the film on friday , september 15th , signed and numbered vinyl version of “down at the liquor store” , a bumper sticker , a coffee cup , and your name added to film credits .

our crowd funding target is $ 25 , 000 and the money raised will be used for the project ' s post production . please support this very important film . check out the film ' s trailer and rewards on pozible .

the past week is likely to have been one of bill shorten’s worst since becoming opposition leader , which is saying something because he’s been in the role since 2013 .

the film is slated for general release in november . while the film is still being completed , the nsw government prepares to table its biodiversity conservation bill , which significantly weakens environmental protections and land - clearing controls , considerably changed from the earlier native vegetation act .

keanu reeves as john wick in a scene from the film , “john wick . ” ( ap photo / lionsgate , david lee )

liza minnelli , the daughter of judy garland , is a star in her own right . her finest film role was playing sally bowles in the 1972 musical cabaret .

the water level should be set according to your owners manual or at your water conditioning technician ' s recommendation . the salt level should be maintained a minimum of 3 to 4 inches above the water level , unless otherwise directed by the owners manual or water conditioner technician .

alkaline or acidic ? 28 bottled water ph test . don ' t buy another bottled water until you watch this !

until then , the city would draw water from the flint river and treat it at the old flint water plant . there were problems from the very start .

narrator : the corrosive water not only rusted flint ' s iron water mains , but it also attacked the scale on the lead lines servicing individual homes .

no . salt ' s sole purpose in your water softener is to regenerate the resin beads that actually take the hardness out of your water . this exchange does not make your water taste salty or significantly increase your sodium intake .

most well and city water does not usually contain lead . water usually picks up lead inside the home from household plumbing that is made with lead materials . the only way to know if there is lead in drinking water is to have it tested . contact the local health department or the water supplier to find out how to get the water tested . send for the epa pamphlet , lead and your drinking water , for more information about what you can do if you have lead in your drinking water . call epa ' s safe drinking water hotline ( 800 - 426 - 4791 ) for more information .

narrator : with no corrosion control in place , the flint water corrodes and rusts the iron much faster .

narrator : edwards was already working with walters to measure the level of lead in her water .

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matt damon is super protective of clean water . he founded h2o africa , a charity providing clean water to african communities and in 2009 , damon joined forces with waterpartners and created urltoken to provide access to clean water in all continents .

marc edwards : lead gets into drinking water almost exclusively from pipes . there are very few cases where there ' s lead in water leaving the treatment plant .

it is the only enforceable drinking water standard at either the state or federal level .

jeff swertfeger : as the water trickles through the sand , then the sand will remove the rest of the particulates , the rest of the pathogens that could be left in the water . so then , when we , when we come out of the sand filters , that water looks very clear , very clean .

narrator : the pipes carrying the water are corroding , leaching lead into the system and putting thousands of children in danger .

people take pictures of water gushing from the reservoir of china’s three gorges dam , the largest hydropower station in the world .

eleanor holmes norton ( united states house of representatives , film clip ) : we want to know what actually happened .

over time , water - insoluble matter from salt or the water supply may accumulate in the salt holding tank . this water - insoluble matter may have the appearance of a brown or black sludge or appear oily . it is usually the result of natural mineral inclusions contained in the salt , and is generally inorganic in nature .

“strong , amazing women are at the heart of this story , " fanjoy says in the press release , " and they’re also at the center of this film creatively . "

keeping humidity levels in these areas below 50 percent can prevent water condensation on building materials .

narrator : g . m . switches back to detroit water on its own . meanwhile , city officials continue to insist the water is safe .

but even when a dam isn’t involved , water is key to producing most of the world’s electricity . in gas , coal , nuclear and many other types of power plants , the fuel is actually used to turn water into steam , and generators convert the steam’s energy into electricity . in honor of this year’s world water week , here are some of the unexpected ways water plays a vital role in modern energy production , and some of the surprising uses for water in the possible power sources of the future :

narrator : virginia tech researcher jeffrey parks evaluates the water samples from the walters ' home .

safe drinking water hotline ( 800 ) 426 - 4791 operates monday to friday from 8 : 30a . m . to 5p . m . est . provides information on regulations under the safe drinking water act , lead and radon in drinking water , filter information , and a list of state drinking water offices .

editor’s note : at sunday’s awards ceremony , fragmented won for best feature film and douglas elford - argent won best director .

gwen was enrolled at the n . y . film academy when accepted into the director’s program at london film academy , which , gwen says , was a crash course in everything ( though she returned to the states with a particular love for editing ) . since then , gwen and douglas have wed , and fragmented is the six film they’ve made together . he comes up with the ideas , she writes the screenplay . she acts , he directs . she edits .

“d” and “g” are douglas elford - argent and gwendolyn garver who were enjoying the success hot hors d’oeuvres offered to them by white - gloved waiters at the pasadena international film festival’s gatsby gala last thursday evening , which was held at the westin pasadena . their film fragmented ( 30 something productions ) follows a twisted path when a woman’s husband disappears while they are traveling abroad . nothing is what it seems ; no one is who they seem .

narrator : gina lusters ' father is a water distribution specialist helping to replace pipes in flint .

u . s . epa , chromium in drinking water . accessed june 2015 . available at urltoken

something in the water was co - written by trey fanjoy - - who has directed a number of well - known country music videos , including lambert & apos ; s " kerosene , " " famous in a small town , " " the house that built me , " " we should be friends " and many more - - and cindy mccreery . it will be fanjoy & apos ; s feature - film directorial debut .

film projects has organized the rough - - ‐cut preview screening to coincide with the anticipated introduction of the new draft biodiversity conservation bill into nsw parliament later this month .

something as inane as this encounter shouldn’t come as a revelation or make for a particularly profound television moment . and yet , it did , writes katy hall .

miguel del toral ( environmental protection agency region 5 ) : i first started to get concerned when we just had a series of events that happened one after another . beginning with the e . coli being found in the water , followed by high disinfection byproducts , and coupled with the severely discolored water , it was obvious to me that something was really wrong there .

nowhere is this better demonstrated than in cincinnati , which has been treating river water for 200 years . in both flint and cincinnati , the water starts out essentially the same , straight from the river : brown and cloudy with particles .

narrator : to remove these , many cities use carbon filtration , similar to the charcoal in an aquarium or in a home water filter . at the end , finishing chemicals , like fluoride and chlorine , are added . as a rule , river water is more difficult to treat than lake water .

narrator : the power of corrosion control can be seen with the naked eye . at virginia tech , amy pruden compares flint ' s water to water from the detroit system . she places a small iron coil , to represent the iron water mains , into each sample .

narrator : edwards knows a lot can happen after the water leaves the treatment plant . in american cities , water flows through networks of underground pipes : first , through city water mains , up to 10 feet in diameter , typically made of iron . from the mains , smaller service lines carry water to individual homes and businesses . and , in flint , a lot of those service lines are made of lead .

in october 2015 , 18 months after the switch , flint finally changes back to the detroit water system and once again receives properly treated water from lake huron . but it will take many months for flint ' s water pipes to rebuild the protective scale that ' s been stripped away .

bill schuette ( michigan attorney general , film clip ) : flint was a casualty of arrogance , absence of accountability , shirking responsibility .

jeff swertfeger : we end up with a water that ' s about like this . so , we actually remove about 90 to 95 percent of the solids in the water , just through that process .

normally , blocks are used in specially designed salt holding tanks . for proper operation , the water level in the holding tank is raised to keep the blocks submerged for maximum brine formation . if you want to switch to salt blocks you may have to reset the water level in the salt keeper .

update : with the release of ewg ' s tap water database , we found an additional 32 million americans who have been supplied water with chromium - 6 contamination .

narrator : today marc edwards and local authorities agree that the water in flint is safe to drink with a filter .

water . turn on the faucet and it’s always there . without it we perish . but how safe is our tap water ? in this special report narrated by joe morton , nova investigates what happened in flint , michigan , when local officials changed the city’s water source to save money , but overlooked a critical treatment process . as the water pipes corroded , lead leached into the system , exposing the community—including thousands of children—to dangerous levels of poison . nova uncovers the science behind this manmade disaster— from the intricacies of water chemistry to the biology of lead poisoning to the misuse of science itself . nova follows ordinary citizens and independent scientists who exposed the danger lurking in flint’s water and confronted those who turned a blind eye . and discover the disturbing truth that reaches far beyond flint—water systems across the country are similarly vulnerable . how can we protect ourselves from poisoned water ?

four episodes into the third season of netflix ' s bojack horseman , the animated series hits , and sustains , the peak of its creative genius . after getting blacklisted from nearly every film festival in the world , the flawed protagonist finds himself torpedoing to an underwater city for the pacific ocean film festival , where he wears an air helmet that prevents him from communicating with the wet world around him .

clean cool mist and ultrasonic humidifiers in accordance with manufacturer ' s instructions and refill with clean water daily .

scientists in california ' s office of environmental health hazard assessment are not alone in determining that extraordinarily low levels of chromium - 6 in drinking water can cause cancer .

exclusive : country music star miranda lambert is collaborating on the female comedy script something in the water penned by celebrated country music video director trey fanjoy and screenwriter cindy mccreery . the strong female - led project is a multi - generational ensemble piece set in the heartland ; lambert would take on one of the roles in the romp about five women challenging their men in a bass fishing competition . the project , which fanjoy also hopes to direct , is said be in the vein of bridesmaids meets steel magnolias .

he was awarded the humanitarian award for his work with water defense at the bafta los angeles britannia awards .

narrator : one of the deadliest water - borne illnesses in the developed world , it ' s a severe form of pneumonia caused by legionella bacteria . experts suspect that the legionella outbreak was triggered by flint ' s water treatment .

cultivating murder is a documentary film about the tragic murder of nsw dept of environment officer glen turner by moree farmer ian turnbull . the story highlights the tensions over illegal land clearing in regional australia and the efforts of some large scale farmers to water down the environment protection laws which protect native vegetation and critically endangered species .

direct discharge of either sodium or potassium chloride brine should be avoided . brine alters the osmotic pressure that grasses ( plants ) rely upon to regulate water needs . imbalance in water supply will result in browning and eventually destruction of the grass . a diluted brine ratio of 20 parts water to 1 part brine may be used .

narrator : leeanne isn ' t the only one investigating flint ' s water . the city falls under the jurisdiction of the environmental protection agency region 5 . the e . p . a . makes regulations to protect the environment , including the water supply .

narrator : general motors reports that flint river water is corroding its engine parts .

citizen scientist leeanne walters answers questions about flint ' s water crisis on reddit .

michael moore ( filmmaker protesting , film clip ) : let ' s call this what it is . it ' s not just a water crisis , it ' s a racial crisis , it ' s a poverty crisis .

chris pine , however , was destined for more than romantic roles in disney chick flicks , which he learned soon after when he accepted the role of james tiberius kirk in the reboot of the cultural phenomenon “star trek . ” pine quickly rose to stardom and has since been featured in films including “unstoppable” with denzel washington and in the spy rom - com “this means war” with reese witherspoon and tom hardy . he also provided the voice for jack frost in the animated film “rise of the guardians” and is set to portray cinderella’s prince in the upcoming film adaptation of steven sondheim’s “into the woods . ”

narrator : these problems led walters to ask detailed questions about how the water was being treated .

leeanne walters , of flint , michigan , helped save the city from a lead water crisis .

u . s . epa , monitoring the occurrence of unregulated drinking water contaminants . available at urltoken

narrator : a key component of federal water regulation is the e . p . a . ' s lead and copper rule , which limits the amount of lead and copper allowed in drinking water before utilities must take action .

we are keen to discuss our outreach / impact strategies for the film with potential supporters . if you are interested in working with us you can contact the producers at info @ filmprojects . com . au .

miguel del toral , a water regulation expert for e . p . a . , has been following the events in flint .

brad wurfel ( michigan department of environmental quality spokesperson , audio clip ) : anyone who ' s concerned about lead in the drinking water in flint can relax .

please call 1 - 888 - 385 - 7258 and ask them to forward you to the cargill inside sales representative in your area . the cargill inside sales person can give you the name of a retailer in your area . for water conditioning salt link to the water conditioning product locator .

( a part per billion is about a drop of water in an olympic - size swimming pool . ) but in 2014 , after aggressive lobbying by industry and water utilities , state regulators adopted a legal limit 500 times the public health goal .

studies performed by the water quality association indicate that a properly placed septic tank with an adequate septic field is in no way impaired in operation by brine discharged from a water softener . this is primarily due to dilution factors and septic field drainage .

a press release explains that something in the water is " a friendship comedy set in the south " - - no relation to carrie underwood & apos ; s hit song of the same name . the movie will focus on five female friends who challenge their significant others to a bass - fishing competition ; deadline describes it as " bridesmaids meets steel magnolias . " lambert will " provide musical curation services " for the movie , the press release explains ; she & apos ; ll also write an original song for it , but she won & apos ; t be starring in the film , as was previously reported .

sources : lead - based paint , contaminated soil , dust , and drinking water .

ewg , chromium - 6 in u . s . tap water . dec . 20 , 2010 . available at urltoken

the film asks how and why did the patriarch of one of nsw richest farming families come to commit cold - - ‐blooded murder , and shows the devastating impact the crime has had on turner’s family and workmates .

if the salt keeper was empty at the time of fresh salt addition , check the water level in the tank . if lower than normal , the float may be stuck in the internal side column . remove the cover and check the mechanism to determine if it is working freely . if not , call the service department of the water softener manufacturer and arrange for a service call .

gina luster : i mean , the amount of water bottles just my small family goes through would shock the average person . easily , you can go through a case of water just with one dinner .

millions of homes across the country get water from lead service lines that connect the main drinking water line in the street to our homes . this step - by - step app will guide you to find out whether your home is one of them .

it depends on the hardness of your water , but on average less than 3 % of your sodium intake comes from drinking softened water . it is estimated that the average person consumes the equivalent of two to three teaspoons of salt a day from various sources . assuming a daily intake of 5 grams ( 5000 milligrams ) of sodium in food and the consumption of three quarts of water ( i . e . , coffee , tea , fruit juices , and drinking water ) , the contribution of sodium ( na + ) in the water from the home water softening process is minimal compared to the total daily intake of many sodium - rich foods . the formula for calculating the amount of additional sodium follows : mg of na / quart of softened water = grains of hardness x 7 . 5 mg na / grain of hardness .

we saw that the percentage of children with elevated lead levels—this , this five or greater—had doubled after the water switch . and in some neighborhoods , where , where the water lead levels done by marc edwards were the highest , were the same neighborhoods that the children ' s blood lead levels had increased the most .

as with food considerations , water softening salts are not intended for human or animal feeding . the particle size is inappropriate for small animals . in addition , water softening salt may have additives that are inappropriate for animal feeds .

whether you’ve just started “ 13 reasons why , ” are bingeing it again or just miss it like crazy , here’s a little something to keep the show alive , way past that 13th tape has been played .

i ' ve put salt in my softener but i still don ' t have soft water . what ' s wrong ?

marc edwards , a professor of environmental engineering at virginia tech , would play an important role in the story of flint ' s water .

this is not something you mess around with . we are never ever , ever supposed to expose a child to lead , because once a child has it in their blood , there is not much that you can do about it .

marc edwards : we needed a team of students to immediately go to flint and start sampling the water .

it’s a strong women’s story , but it’s also noteworthy for another reason : the move for lionsgate is an interesting one as bass fishing is one of the most popular sports in the midwest and in the south but is , surprisingly , also popular in asia . the company has been particularly keen on finding content that will play well in china . the film is the latest to be produced by lionsgate as part of its digital film and television initiatives starring leading youtube influencers , which was a topic of great conversation for an entertainment panel at this week’s milken’s global conference .

amy pruden : and we ' ll also see the water begin to become orange and cloudy , because of the rust .

narrator : then , in 2004 , the centers for disease control reported that children in d . c . who had been drinking the contaminated water did not have high enough levels of lead in their blood to cause concern .

elin betanzo ( northeast - midwest institute ) : even though we have a drinking water regulation that directly addresses lead in drinking water , the lead and copper rule , my boss asked me , " do you think people were actually hurt here ? we need to find out if children get poisoned by lead through drinking water . "

narrator : in flint , michigan , officials try to save money by changing the city ' s water source , but instead endanger public health .

which was also recounted in a front - page story in the wall street journal .

rock salt is less expensive in the store . will it work in my softener ?

when we were making this new record “down at the liquor store , ” we were sure to keep the cameras rolling . we now have a film that captures one of the most exciting musical journeys of my career .

in 2008 , a two - year study by the national toxicology program found that drinking water with chromium - 6 , or hexavalent chromium , caused cancer in laboratory rats and mice .

narrator : with the push of a button , the city of flint , michigan switches to a new source for its drinking water , the flint river . that switch would soon become a disastrous combination of poisoned water and misuse of science .

showcasing her dancing abilities , hepburn starred opposite fred astaire in the musical funny face ( 1957 ) . this film featured hepburn undergoing another transformation . this time , she played a beatnik bookstore clerk who gets discovered by a fashion photographer played by astaire . lured by a free trip to paris , the clerk becomes a beautiful model . hepburn’s clothes for the film were designed by hubert de givenchy , one of her close friends .

clooney was arrested in 2012 during a protest outside the sudanese embassy in washington d . c where he was protesting the war in darfur .

narrator : this protective scale is crucial . it becomes a barrier that prevents lead from leaching into the water .

and a senate hearing prompted by the findings , the epa ordered local water utilities to begin the first nationwide tests for the unregulated contaminant . from 2013 to 2015 , utilities took more than 60 , 000 samples of drinking water and found chromium - 6 in more than 75 percent of them .

you may have your drinking water tested by contacting a laboratory certified by your state or territory .

new jersey drinking water quality institute , sept . 10 , 2010 meeting minutes . available at urltoken

mona hanna - attisha : what we did is we compared lead levels before the water switch in 2013 , and we compared them to lead levels after the water switch in 2015 . we were really only looking at one thing : was the percentage of children with lead levels at or above five micrograms per deciliter .

narrator : if there is so much lead in our plumbing , why aren ' t we all lead - poisoned ? the answer lies in the complex chemical reactions that go on between the pipe itself and the water flowing through it .

stepping away from lighthearted fare , hepburn co - starred in the film adaptation of leo tolstoy & apos ; s war and peace with her husband , mel ferrer , and henry fonda in 1956 . three years later , she played sister luke in the nun & apos ; s story ( 1959 ) , which earned her an academy award nomination . the film focused on her character & apos ; s struggle to succeed as a nun . a review in variety said " audrey hepburn has her most demanding film role , and she gives her finest performance . " following that stellar performance , she went on to star in the john huston - directed western the unforgiven ( 1960 ) with burt lancaster . that same year , her first child , a son named sean , was born .

narrator : marc edwards estimated that more than 40 , 000 children under the age of two or in the womb were potentially exposed to high levels of lead in the water . many could be left with lifelong problems .

news audio # 4 : concerns over water quality in flint are leading genesee county ' s biggest employer to shut off their taps .

as leeanne walters discovers , at the time of the switch , local authorities set out to treat water from the flint river much the way any other city would .

are you ready to take the next step ? join ewg and tell the epa it’s time to take action on chromium - 6 contamination in drinking water . enter your information below and we’ll add your name to ewg’s petition to the epa urging it to set a national safety limit for chromium - 6 in drinking water .

most famous of goldberg’s cartoons were those in a series involving professor lucifer gorgonzola butts , who created elaborate and absurd machines to complete simple tasks . such machines would eventually take goldberg’s name . goldberg was well decorated during his lifetime : he was the founder and president of the national cartoonists society and won a pulitzer prize in 1948 for his political cartoons , among other awards . he probably knew he’d done something right with his life , however , when in 1931 , “rube goldberg” entered the merriam - webster dictionary as an adjective that means accomplishing something simple through complicated means . if your name in the freaking dictionary doesn’t indicate a cultural impact , what does ?

jeff swertfeger : there are chemical manufacturers all up and down the river , and some of that material can get into the water .

narrator : mayor dayne walling , who drank the water on t . v . during the crisis , is voted out of office .

narrator : the water might look clean , but coming from an industrialized river , it may still carry invisible toxins .

students begin calling homes with the highest lead levels , to warn residents not to use tap water without a filter .

hoffs and the bangles undoubtedly left their mark on pop culture . their music has been featured in the 1985 cult classic the “goonies , ” an episode of “gilmore girls” and the austin powers film franchise . modern moviegoers should definitely recognize “eternal flame , ” as it appeared in the a capella movie “pitch perfect” as part of the barden bellas’ original competition medley .

in june , the texas commission on environmental quality released a proposal for a daily safe dose of chromium - 6 in drinking water that drew heavily on studies by proctor and other toxstrategies scientists .

in hydraulic fracturing , water is pumped deep underground to create cracks that allow access to trapped oil or natural gas . each well can require up to 7 million gallons of water to release all that fossil fuel . in some areas , such as california and texas , diverting water for fracking is depleting already stressed supplies . such tension may increase , according to a new report from the world resources institute , which notes that 40 percent of the countries that have areas suitable for fracking already have limited water resources .

narrator : with no training in civil engineering , this was her own independent investigation . her first question : how does water get treated ?

this page provides general information about lead in drinking water and offers suggestions on what actions you can take to reduce or determine lead levels .

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personal communication to ewg from bill wolfe , former policy analyst for the new jersey department of environmental protection , aug . 25 , 2016 . wolfe spoke at the news conference to announce the drinking water quality institute ' s health - based maximum contaminant level for chromium - 6 in drinking water .

amy pruden ( virginia polytechnic institute and state university ) : in this case , we ' re going to go ahead and let this water react overnight . and what we ' ll see is that , with time , the more corrosive flint water will react with the iron .

narrator : later , leanne ' s home will be called " ground zero , " known as the first critical case of dangerous lead levels in drinking water after the switch .

narrator : the answer would be found in the emails and documents streaming in from freedom of information act requests .

mike schock : so now , because this water was much more corrosive , the scale changed , it saw a different chemical environment , and the scale began to flake off and deteriorate from all types of plumbing , including the lead . and then the lead on that surface of the pipe dissolved rapidly into the water .

mike nichols was an american theater and film director best known for his 1967 classic , the graduate . he won an emmy , oscar , tony and grammy awards—and is one of only 14 to do so .

the smell of rotten eggs is generally associated with hydrogen sulfide gas that may be present in the water supply . salt does not remove this odor or the gas . you must take other steps to remove the gas .

my water smells like rotten eggs . is there a type of salt i can use to remove it ?

for our analysis , ewg matched the unregulated contaminant monitoring rule database with the federal safe drinking water information system to obtain county and population data .

levels in homes : preliminary research shows widespread presence of pesticide residues in homes .

the daily californian covers the city of berkeley and the campus in unparalleled detail , all while training the future of the journalism industry .

the california scientists set a so - called public health goal of 0 . 02 parts per billion in tap water , the level that would pose negligible risk over a lifetime of consumption .

narrator : d . c . residents had been drinking lead - contaminated water for almost three years before the public was notified .

“strong , amazing women are at the heart of this story and they’re also at the center of this film creatively , ” fanjoy said . “grace is in the zone comedically and at the top of her game and so is miranda , artistically and musically . i’m thrilled to have so many wonderful creative collaborators . ”

in 2001 , as state scientists conducted a risk assessment to guide the regulation , an epidemiologist named jay beaumont noticed something fishy . a chinese scientist had revised a key study of chromium - 6 in drinking water , reversing his original finding of a strong link to stomach cancer . some members of a " blue - ribbon " panel advising the state cited the revised study as evidence against a strong regulation . but when beaumont tried to find out why the scientist had changed his mind , it turned out he was dead .

another movie that had ellis and cave’s collaboration on the soundtrack was the incredible “lawless . ” strong performances in that film . and the soundtrack killed it ( bluegrass covers of old rock songs , including ralph stanley doing “white light / white heat , ” despite clearly having no idea how it went . )

only solar salt would be recommended . optimum sizing of salt is ' medium ' in gradation . most solar salt used for water softening is coarse or extra coarse , which is larger in gradation .

sid roy : they had been protesting this water quality , and they were not getting anywhere . the city insisted everything was fine .

bass fishing is one of the most popular sports in the midwest and in the south and is a growing sport around the world . particularly interesting is that bass fishing is a popular sport in asia so this project seems finely tuned to capitalize on the craze not only in this county but in the all - important asian territories . in addition , figure in the country music superfans , and this project is a no - brainer .

narrator : poisoned water , poisoned science , government inaction , lives of children and families under threat , to marc edwards , the story unfolding in flint is all too familiar .

but neither new jersey nor north carolina has set a legal limit for chromium - 6 in tap water . in both states , scientists ' health - based recommendations were at odds with the decisions of politically appointed regulators .

bottom line : this record is the one i’ve always wanted to make . i just needed to come home and do it in my own way without anyone lookin’ over my shoulder . it’s a record that doesn’t fit in a box , but rather… . in a triangle , just like the delta . it’s made from the heart without constraints of genre . i am so excited there is a film to show the world our experience in indianola , mississippi .

the health effects associated with some indoor air pollutants are summarized in the section " reference guide to major indoor air pollutants in the home . "

that same year , hepburn made her feature film debut in 1951 & apos ; s one wild oat , in an uncredited role . she went on to parts in such films as young wives & apos ; tales ( 1951 ) and the lavender hill mob ( 1951 ) , starring alec guiness . her next project on the new york stage introduced her to american audiences .

the virginia tech study concludes that over 40 percent of flint homes had elevated levels of lead in their water , and as many as 8 , 000 children under the age of six were exposed .

sometimes radon enters the home through well water . in a small number of homes , the building materials can give off radon , too . however , building materials rarely cause radon problems by themselves .

mike schock : most people don ' t expect that there ' s actually a lot of lead in the scale . it ' s not a very good joke , but we often say that you are drinking water through lead painted straws , because these are the minerals that were in lead paint , and yet they ' re lining your drinking water pipe .

dr . eden wells ( michigan department of health and human services , film clip ) : do we know how many children will actually have a long - term effect from this exposure ? we do not .

this question often accompanies a switch from one type of water softening salt to another , e . g . going from pellets to solar . what you are seeing perhaps is related to a difference in bulk density between the two products . the closer the crystals pack together , the less volume they occupy . this would give rise to the perception that the salt is dissolving too fast . in addition , if the initial water level in your unit was set to use pellets , it may be too high to use solar salt ( i . e . too much water in the tank dissolves more salt ) and may need to be lowered . follow your softener manufacturer ' s instructions .

tatooine was a sparsely inhabited circumbinary desert planet located in the galaxy ' s outer rim territories . it was the homeworld to the influential anakin and luke skywalker , who would go on to shape galactic history . part of a binary star system , the planet was oppressed by scorching suns , resulting in the world lacking the necessary surface water to sustain large populations . as a result , many residents of the planet instead drew water from the atmosphere via moisture farms . the planet also had no vegetation .


fireworks ( 1947 ) is a homoerotic experimental film by kenneth anger .

filmed in his parents ' home in beverly hills , california , over a long weekend while they were away , the film stars anger and explicitly explores themes of homosexuality and sado-masochism .

it is the earliest of his works to survive .

anger synopsizes the film thus : " a dissatisfied dreamer awakes , goes out in the night seeking a ' light ' and is drawn through the needle 's eye .

a dream of a dream , he returns to bed less empty than before . "

adding later , " this flick is all i have to say about being seventeen , the united states navy , american christmas , and the fourth of july . "

anger was arrested on obscenity charges following the release of fireworks .

in 1958 , a lawsuit was brought against the manager raymond rohauer of l.a. 's coronet theatre for screening fireworks .

the case became " an epic obscenity trial " in the california supreme court which declared the film to be art .

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fireworks ( 1947 film ) <EOT> kenneth anger , fireworks , 1947 , 16 mm , black - and - white , sound , 15 minutes . kenneth anger .

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ka : what i call my magick lantern cycle , nine films . it starts with fireworks and ends with lucifer rising . incidentally , this is the 50th anniversary of fireworks ; i made it in 1947 .

6 . kenneth anger , audio commentary , fireworks ( 1947 ) , from the films of kenneth anger , vol . 1 ( san francisco : fantoma , 2007 ) , dvd .

completed at the tender age of 17 , fireworks – an audacious pre - stonewall exploration of homosexuality , violence , and american youth – was the breakthrough film for avant - garde film legend kenneth anger .

…in his first successful film , fireworks ( 1947 ) , shot at his parents’ home while they were away . the brief movie featured anglemyer as a young man who fantasizes about and is then abused by a group of sailors . ( anglemyer credited himself as anger and later as kenneth anger . ) the overt homoerotic…

the term “trance - film” is taken from p . adams sitney , whose visionary film : the american avant - garde ( oxford : oxford university press , 2002 ) has become the bible of american avant - garde film history .

my favourite queer , film making icon once again makes a short film that ' s so beautiful it ' s hard to explain . everything he makes i really love . he ' s an icon of film making and also soundtracks .

pictures at an october gallery , london , exhibition of drawings and objects by and about the occult master aleister crowley ( 1875 - 1947 ) . exhibit titled " an old master " .

shot this film over the course of one weekend , while his parents were out of town .

founded in 1999 , senses of cinema is one of the first online film journals of its kind and has set the standard for professional , high quality film - related content on the internet .

this year marks the seventieth anniversary of kenneth anger’s fireworks , widely considered the ur - film of american queer cinema . in the pages that follow , artist and film scholar ara osterweil reexamines the seminal short as a response to profound social tensionsracial , sexual , and nationalisticthat came to a head in the aftermath of world war ii .

germany year zero is the closest that italian neorealism came to reckoning with the psychic life of children . made at the same time , fireworks meditates on the generative possibilities of psychic and sexual shattering . in so many ways , fireworks anticipates the explosion of the queer underground cinema that blossomed in the united states in the ’60s and in which anger’s later film scorpio rising ( 1963 ) played a central role . yet fireworks is also a product of its own “queer time and place . ” 19

christopher meir received his ma in film studies from concordia university . come the fall , he will begin work on his doctorate in film studies at the university of warwick . he will be writing his dissertation on new scottish cinema .

fireworks is not only anger’s first major film , but it also introduces many of the themes and motifs which would come to populate his later works . foremost among these is the concern with light . from the film’s title and opening image of a torch being thrown into water , through the lightning flashes and subsequent journey into darkness that the protagonist takes ( and concluding with pyrotechnic orgasms and a lover surrounded by a corona scratched onto the film’s surface ) , fireworks is a film obsessed with the technical and metaphoric use of light . the dreamer of anger’s synopsis ultimately finds his ‘light’ in the sailor with a phallic roman candle who becomes a god - like figure , laying in bed with the dreamer at the film’s end . throughout the rest of his career anger has remained fascinated with this idea of light and the character of lucifer , who is literally the god of light . ( 3 )

i have remarked before that anger ' s work falls either into the mystic camp or the homoerotic camp . this is firmly in the latter , with fireworks as a fairly blatant metaphor for sexual expression ( which both a euphemism and not ) . it ' s worth it for the eye candy , if that ' s your thing , and it ' s , of course , impressive to see this kind of imagery in 1947 .

the claim that this was made in 1947 feels like an elaborate hoax - this thing is decades ahead of it ' s time , that is , if we ' ve even caught up with it today . homoerotic is perhaps too subtle a term . anger is a genius .

no other picture could so perfectly initiate the film career of such a brilliant , complicated , ego - maniacal , queer wizard .

ara osterweil is a painter , a film scholar , and an associate professor of cultural studies at mcgill university in montreal . she is the author of flesh cinema : the corporeal turn in american avant - garde film ( manchester university press , 2014 ) .

a collection of queer characters , representations , and sensibilities on film . from queer masterpieces to camp classics , documentaries to romantic comedies , …

9 . according to scott macdonald , fireworks was shown twice at cinema 16 in new york , in 1952 and 1953 . see his cinema 16 : documents toward a history of the film society ( philadelphia : temple university press , 2002 ) , 171 , 195 . also see david e . james and adam hyman , eds . , alternative projections : experimental film in los angeles , 1945–1980 ( london : john libbey , 2015 ) , 132 .

fireworks ’ insistence on the actuality of homoerotic desire and sexual activity was a first in american cinema . yet the sexual desires that animate the film did not ignite in a vacuum : they were part of an emerging gay culture in midcentury los angeles . they were also a response to the militarization of public life during the war and to the racial and ethnic tensions that convulsed los angeles in the immediate postwar period . in its brutal staging of sexual violation , fireworks erotically transforms historical trauma into anger’s own metaphorical birth and baptism .

fireworks revolves around a young man ( played by anger himself ) associating with various navy sailors , who eventually turn on him , stripping him naked and beating him to death , ripping open his chest to find a clock ticking inside . several fireworks then explode , accompanied by a burning christmas tree and the final shot shows the young man lying in bed next to another topless man .

anger ' s first film was made over the course of a weekend at his family home . his parents were away . he was seventeen . the film is a short and immensely effective exploration of sexuality . that the fantasies are of homosexual leaning bears no relevance ; it is merely the chosen vehicle for the subject . the film is fascinated with the violence of sexual submission as well as the fear of it . the narrative seems to take the form of a dream sequence and is laced with astonishingly mature sarcasm and gentle wit . it is by far anger ' s greatest film and a landmark of the american avant - garde .

not everyone was so discouraging . in 1949 , anger submitted fireworks to the festival du film maudit in biarritz , and his filmmaker hero jean cocteau awarded it the poetic film prize . cocteau then wrote to the young director expressing his admiration for the work , which persuaded anger to move to paris . in 1950 , he took cocteau’s advice . he found a job at the cinémathèque française as an assistant to henri langlois and remained in france for a decade . while there , fireworks was exhibited at several european festivals , where it was better received than it had been in the states . of course , european audiences had not only experienced the war and its ravaging of innocence firsthand but had witnessed the transformation of the representation of adolescence in the various national cinemas that emerged from the rubble .

ka : i ' ve had everything from large spaces to smaller , experimental ones . i met bertolt brecht with charles laughton in the very same theatre where fireworks was first shown , at the coronet film society . this is a theatre that seats about 300 , an intimate theatre , but it ' s perfect for showing experimental kinds of films . it really was a place where you met all sorts of people . james whale - - the director of frankenstein - - came , and dr . kinsey . dr . alfred kinsey was there and he invited me to do one of his famous interviews for his book on human sexual behavior , and he also said he wanted to buy a print of fireworks for the collection at the kinsey institute , which was the first time i sold a print of my film .

in closing , i would like to point out the remarkable synthesis anger achieves in bringing together the nocturnal longings of a gay teenage boy ( and a sense of the cultural climate of the 1940s america he inhabits ) and the work of cocteau , a companion soul the film openly acknowledges . in fireworks , anger melds together a lampoon of american culture and authority and his life - long obsessions with lucifer – and his play with light – into a work which explores the inextinguishable flames of youth and eros . he also made a film which is aware of its own context in the history of avant - garde cinema .

kenneth anger ( b . 1930 , santa monica , usa ) is one of the greatest and most notorious living american avant - garde filmmakers . drawn to cinema , glamour and scandal early on – his grandmother worked in hollywood as a dresser and he knew shirley temple from school dances – he made his first film of note , fireworks ( 1947 ) , at the age of 17 . it set the mold for his later oeuvre , silent films of intense sensual imagery combined with mesmerizing musical soundtracks . a follower of necromancer aleister crowley , anger describes his lifework as being “magick” . his films may be seen as cinematic manifestations of his occult practices , appealing directly to the subconscious mind . anger also wrote hollywood babylon . his filmography includes puce moment ( 1949 ) , inauguration of the pleasure dome ( 1954 ) , kustom kar kommandos ( 1965 ) , rabbit’s moon ( 1972 ) and lucifer rising ( 1980 ) .

like alice in wonderland and the wizard of oz , fireworks pivots on a dream : an “innocent” young protagonist falls asleep and dreams up a world of desires too dangerous to be acknowledged in waking life . in most hollywood dream films , viewers are immersed in the screen’s wonders until the end of the film , when they are yanked abruptly from its fantasy mode and assured that all they have witnessed was “just a dream . ” with this return to reality , what might be called queer desire is once again repressed , along with the vital contradictions between public and private life that such dreams engender . yet when anger’s character awakens at the end of fireworks , he discovers that evidentiary traces of his fantasy have permeated his waking life .

fireworks also screened alongside curtis harrington ’s 1946 experimental film fragment of seeking at rudolph and pauline schindler ’s famous kings road house around 1948 . john cage and merce cunningham were in attendance , as were other radical artists and intellectuals . the screening did not go well : cage apparently told anger and harrington that their films had “ nothing to do with art . ” 13 according to anger , mrs . schindler called the filmmakers a week later to tell them that they were both “very sick young men . ” 14

] in fireworks , i released all the explosive pyrotechnics of a dream . inflammable desires dampened by day under the cold water of consciousness are ignited that night by the libertarian matches of sleep , and burst forth in showers of shimmering incandescence . these imaginary displays provide a temporary relief .

in addition to demonstrating an affinity with avant - garde filmmakers in america , anger’s fireworks also shows a great deal of international ‘cine - savvy’ through its homages to french filmmaker jean cocteau , particularly his classic experimental work le sang d’un poète ( 1930 ) . this can be seen in both films’ use of baroque set design , while the strange artifact hanging from the protagonist’s ceiling in fireworks is a direct quotation of the multiple wire sculptures which are so important to cocteau’s film . apart from similar set design and decoration , the films share a concern with youthful angst and the usually concomitant social repression of sexuality . in both films , this angst finds an outlet in the form of extreme acts of gory violence . the films likewise share a dream - like structure in which their respective protagonists search for some kind of spiritual and sexual fulfillment . it is no wonder that cocteau would become such a fervent admirer of anger’s work , as fireworks shows that anger was also a big fan of cocteau , and was obsessed with many of the same formal and thematic concerns as the french cinéaste .

emerging simultaneously in the immediate aftermath of world war ii , both fireworks and italian neorealism reimagine adolescence through a dark glass , rendering lingering notions of juvenile innocence obsolete . the children in these films are not passive figures but knowing subjects whose keen understanding emerges from the circumstances of their precarity . squired by war , neorealism ’s queer children have complex political agency , perverse desires , sadomasochistic proclivities , and a penchant for navigating the broken world through what stockton calls “sideways” forms of growth . 18 they also , like anger’s alter ego in fireworks , tend to mediate encounters between national identity and ethnic and racial otherness .

10 . mick brown , “ kenneth anger : where the bodies are buried , ” esquire , january 3 , 2014 , urltoken culture / news / a5483 / kenneth - anger . anger also mentions this in the audio commentary for fireworks on the films of kenneth anger dvd , although he doesn’t give a year for the coronet screening .

in the history of american cinema , dream structures serve a variety of purposes , whether as strategic attempts to avoid censorship or as ways of introducing surreal content into more standard narratives . dreams often function as sites where characters and audiences alike can explore forbidden intimacies . these explorations can be deadly or ecstatic . in kenneth anger ’s fireworks , they are both .

ka : i have a couple of film projects . i hope to be filming one of aleister crowley ' s works , gnostic mass . it ' s a short , it ' ll be a half - hour , but it will involve about a dozen people and have music and dialogue .

1 . anger has always claimed that he was seventeen at the time . other sources , including biographer bill landis , suggest he may have been older . in his anger : the unauthorized biography of kenneth anger ( new york : harpercollins , 1995 ) , landis gives anger’s birthday as february 3 , 1927 , which would have made the filmmaker twenty when fireworks was completed .

17 . jaimey fisher , “on the ruins of masculinity : the figure of the child in italian neorealism and the german rubble - film , ” in italian neorealism and global cinema , ed . laura e . ruberto and kristi m . wilson ( detroit : wayne state university press , 2007 ) , 28 .

ac : let me ask you a " thematic " question about some of your works . i ' m thinking of rabbit ' s moon and fireworks but also the babylon books , where in all of them there ' s an almost relentless , sped - up pace . that ' s certainly true of the babylon books ; you can get through them really quickly . . .

ka : well , that he was a poet in many fields - - among them film - - that he was fascinated with and was able to work with . he started in 1930 with blood of a poet . and i was fortunate enough to meet him when i went to europe . he was on the jury at a festival where i sent fireworks . he wrote me a letter saying that he liked it , so i decided i had to meet him the next year , in 1950 . i stayed [ in paris ] 12 years . i was fortunate for an american to find a job almost immediately . i worked for 12 years for henri langlois at the cinématheque française and had a very close relationship with him .

ka : well , i had a good crowd the last time i was in austin . i suppose it will be perhaps some of the art community , maybe some film students and then the groups that are interested in aleister crowley , on which i ' m an expert ; there ' s a little clan there ( in austin ) .

the climax of the film is signified by the liquefaction of the dreamer’s body in milky ejaculate . poured from above , cream flows over the man’s mouth , throat , and chest . we see a quick shot of anger lying nude on the floor of a public urinal and then another image of the door marked gents . a lone sailor with a bulging erection cuts a heroic figure , but when he lights the phallus protruding from his fly , it turns out to be a roman candle that showers fireworks . anger’s character reemerges , wearing a gilded christmas tree on his head , awkwardly positioned for penetration . as the tree is consumed by fire , photos of the earlier pietà scene ignite , destroying the dream’s archive of queerness . the distinction between fantasy and reality bends as we see anger , sleeping again in his room , alongside a shirtless man whose visage is erased in an explosion of painted white rays intended to obscure the actor’s identity . the film ends with a false image of reparation , as the severed fingers of the plaster hand are reattached only to bid a fond “fuck you” to the audience .

ka : i ' ve never made a film using dialogue or speech , so this will be quite a departure for me . i ' ve planned several projects using speech but never have actually done them , mostly because of the tremendous cost to make them . my films up to now have been silent with musical accompaniment . this will be quite different .

ka : this is my host ' s idea , because , actually , it ' s kind of a surprise for me . i think he ' s going to have the balcony arranged in some kind of decor echoing my film inauguration of the pleasure dome , which already inspired . . . did you see pillow talk with rock hudson and doris day ?

this eruption of violent , sexualized conflict between dominant and marginalized forms of masculinity had a profound impact on anger . as he has acknowledged , the zoot - suit riots served as an artistic and sexual awakening . not only did these disturbances spark “his fascination with the image of the sailor , ” 29 they helped to forge an erotic , masochistic identification with america’s racialized others . although the racial dynamics that inspired the film are nowhere in evidence in its whitewashed cast of characters , fireworks uses a fantasy of being beaten to dramatize the radical implications of anger’s growing sense of identification with those mexicans and african americans who were beaten in the streets and vilified by the media . for anger , the zoot - suit riots served as a primal scene for the emergence of a sexual identity in opposition to heteronormative conceptions of masculinity .

the articulation of postwar queer identity was , as fireworks suggests , inextricable from the prohibitions against it . victimized in an incident of police entrapment , 30 anger recognized the kindred plight of the oppressed zoot suiters while simultaneously perceiving shadows of his own desires in the rioters’ mutual attraction and hostility . putting his own body in the place of the abjected mexicans and african americans , anger fantasizes his violation by a gang of sailors . inviting punishment and then exhibiting his own metaphoric castration by the sailors , the filmmaker offered his adolescent body up as a sacrifice to a social order that was as inimical to queers as it was to americans of color . yet by staging his own surrender to the crushing forces of homophobia in what is essentially his coming - out film , anger constructed an image of his selfhood in the very terms of its destruction .

anger began making films in 1937 , when he was ten . he used his family’s 16 - mm kodak movie camera and the end scraps of their home - movie reels ; the spring load on the camera allowed him to shoot for only thirty seconds at a time . by the time he made the fifteen - minute fireworks , anger had a bell & howell camera that operated at 24 fps . 4 he shot the film in his family’s home in beverly hills over the course of three nights while his parents were away . his production materials were modest . shooting on stock supposedly stolen from the us navy , 5 anger transformed his family home into a hotbed of “inflammable desires” with the help of a large canvas depicting a saloon that he had lifted from the abandoned set of a western . a scene in which anger appears nude on the floor of a public urinal was shot on location in the public men’s room of olive hill park while a friend kept watch outside . 6

born in santa monica and raised in beverly hills , anger stitched his self - image from the dream stuff of hollywood . it should thus come as no surprise that fact and fantasy bleed in his biography , as they do in his famously incendiary book of gossip , hollywood babylon ( 1959 ) . anger’s beloved grandmother was , according to the filmmaker , a costume mistress during the silent film era . 2 supposedly it was she , working with max reinhardt , who got young kenneth a role in the famed austrian - born theater director’s 1935 cinematic adaptation of a midsummer night’s dream : anger claims to have appeared as the changeling prince . but while hollywood was bursting with child actors in the 1930sanger danced with shirley temple at the santa monica cotillion and went to high school with her stand - in , with whom he collaborated on an early film 3 child auteurs were a far more singular breed .

( 34 m ) 5th studio mirror : " and about the sky " berlin : outdoors for film . hans albers speaks with rubble women . director joseph von báky brings to recording hans albers . hans albers sits down on a chair , large , and is melted . he eats bread and look at in the mirror , large . intake valve . hans albers climbs ladder . cameraman swings with camera . joseph by leanna in stage directions , great .

on the other side of the door , anger’s double meets a contemptuous muscle queen who taunts him by assuming a variety of poses that might have been lifted from the pages of vim or your physique . rebuffed for asking for a light , anger is slapped silly and then offered , in one of the film’s visual puns , a bundle of blazing sticks . it’s a lame joke , but one that would have resonated with any viewer who had ever been called a faggot .

a wordless film , save for a voice - over introducing us to the imagery of dreams . a shirtless young man dreams of awakening to finds photographs of a muscular sailor carrying him in his arms . he goes to a bar where the sailor from his dream displays his muscular upper torso . a gang of sailors , swinging chains , enters menacingly . he watches , smoking . they surround him and an assault begins . surreal touches accent the dream - like qualities . a phallic firework , a flaming christmas tree , and the burning photographs provide climax and closure as the young man , back in bed , is beside the sailor .

ka : yes , it ' s been about 10 years or so . i spent some time at the hrc [ ut ' s humanities research center ] collection , looking at the film collections . the gloria swanson collection is there , and i looked at that . i hope i ' ll be able to consult some of the things there . i don ' t think they have any zanuck material , because zanuck was my neighbor here in palm springs and his estate is just around the corner . i live in the al jolson estate , in al jolson ' s last house . but i think the zanuck material has ended up in wahoo , nebraska , in his birth house . i ' ve got quite a few zanuck things . he was a wild game hunter and i have some of the pieces that he shot .

after a momentary respite , the young man turns around only to encounter a menacing group of sailors swinging chains and clubs . again , reality punctures fiction : the gang members were played by authentic american sailors who were studying to be cameramen at the university of southern california . 22 they approach and attack him . blood erupts from the young man’s nose as he is beaten mercilessly . upside - down close - ups of his face show the man in an agony easily mistaken for ecstasy . in one of the film’s many unsubtle references to ejaculation , a bottle of milk shatters beside him . the young man’s chest is pierced with broken glass and we see gruesome shots of the man’s eviscerated chest cavity . we glimpse a wavering electrometer buried in the mess . refusing to provide a sentimental image of a dead queer child , anger provides an image of an eviscerated body that is actually a machine . erotically charged by his own annihilation , he supplants the hypocrisy of the american dream with this vision of nihilistic ecstasy .

but if his films are subversive , that aesthetic hasn ' t hindered numerous " borrowings , " which , as he alludes to in this interview , are both bane and potential boon to anger . the kitsch , irony , and montage editing of anger ' s best - known work , scorpio rising ( 1964 ) , is indeed replicated by today ' s unknowing generation of mtv filmmakers , as anger is only too aware . anger describes his sacrilegious 30 - minute tribute to the myth of the american motorcyclist as " the power machine seen as a tribal totem , from toy to terror . . . thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans . " scorpio is a catalogue , an iconography of the eternality of the american tough and his depiction in film , and ends with what , in anger logic , is the result of all that adulation : an orgiastic rite . if anger ' s summary reads somewhat enigmatic and mystical , understand that that ' s no mistake on his part . in addition to being an avant - garde filmmaker , anger is an occultist . as any good supplicant of the notorious english magus aleister crowley should be , anger has proved to be his own best experiment or invention .

interracial , intergenerational encounters figure prominently in neorealist cinema . in paisan ( 1946 ) , the second film in roberto rossellini ’s wartime trilogy , a drunken african american soldier named joe meets pasquale , a young neapolitan urchin . when we first see him , joe longs to go home , only to recall , suddenly and bitterly , that the home to which he wishes to return is racially segregated america . throughout paisan , the characters speak different languages and thus fail to understand one another . nonetheless , pasquale recognizes ( though does not fully comprehend ) the social implications of joe ’s blackness . he takes advantage of joe ’s inebriated state , “buying” him from fellow street kids . later , when joe falls asleep , pasquale steals his boots . apprehending the child thief on a subsequent day , joe demands the return of his boots and takes the child “home” to retrieve them . yet when joe witnesses the squalid cave in which the orphaned child dwells with dozens of other homeless neapolitans , he leaves without his boots and without any further retributive justice . despite their ethnic and racial differences , joe and pasquale come to recognize each other as kindred . such cross - cultural identifications became the basis for many of the intergenerational intimacies in postwar cinema .

wandering a devastated world in which the normative structures of civilization are overturned , neo - realism’s children are often confronted with erotic energies that have run rampant . in the third film of rossellini’s trilogy , germany year zero ( 1948 ) , the shattering of a young boy’s innocence serves as a metaphor for the ruined topos of bombed - out berlin . wandering around the city hustling for money , edmund and his environment are posed as phenomenological equivalents . edmund succumbs to the pedophilic seductions of a former teacher , a nazi whose musings on survival of the fittest are taken literally by the boy , who then begins plotting his aging father’s death . after being rebuffed and abandoned by his exploiter , the boy is broken , and his undoing proves fatal . edmund has been so tragically queered by money , war , and nazism that he relinquishes the future he has been denied , and throws himself off a building . nearly simultaneously , but worlds away , an ( allegedly ) teenage kenneth anger embraces the erasure of his own future by celebrating his ecstatic submission to violence . whereas edmund’s suicide is an act of desperation so melancholic that it is hard to imagine the future of childhood in its wake , anger eroticizes his own nullification , fashioning a queer mode of survival . what might these queer boys have to say to each other across the ocean of their desires ?

kenneth anger , who will be in austin this halloween weekend , is a premier figure of american avant - garde cinema . legendary as an underground filmmaker , anger prefers to regard himself as a maker of magick , albeit one who uses the camera as his medium to the occult . born around 1930 ( the year varies slightly by source ) , anger ( an adopted name ) grew up in santa monica , california . he started making his own movies at a young age in 1941 with who has been rocking my dream boat ? and numerous other shorts , all of which were later destroyed by the filmmaker ' s own hand . while still a child , anger appeared ( uncredited ) in max reinhardt ' s visually lush hollywood feature a midsummer night ' s dream ( 1935 ) and he also partnered with shirley temple at dance school cotillions . anger ' s fascination with hollywood ' s early decades has remained constant , as seen in his two tell - all , slash - and - burn hollywood babylon volumes , virtual picture books chronicling the seamier , more lurid details of the lives and deaths of hollywood past .

austin chronicle : i think the first order of business is finding out what you ' ve been up to lately .

kenneth anger : well , i have a book i ' m working on [ hollywood babylon 3 ] and i ' ve done two of them , so that is an ongoing project and i expect to have it done soon , at least that is my hope .

ka : yes . i made it over one weekend . i wish i could still do that .

ka : well , they ' re picture books and they ' re almost like movies because i ' m very visually oriented . the pictures are certainly as important as the text and there ' s a lot of jokes and surprises as you turn pages . you find illustrations that may not seem to go with the text .

ka : yes , he certainly is one of my influences . he was much more than a filmmaker ; he didn ' t get into filmmaking until middle age . but he was a child prodigy poet and did very experimental work and choreographed for dance and was involved in so many things .

ac : well maybe i should be more specific - - what i ' m asking about is this kind of thread that runs throughout your career of returning to previous works and doing revisions and i just wanted to hear a bit more . . .

ka : no , this will be a departure for me , but i use ritual in my other films , sometimes in a humorous way , sometimes quite serious . in fact , i admire cocteau for that because you never know when he ' s kidding and when he ' s serious , and i admire that .

ka : yeah , i have a water buffalo that he shot ; i ' ve got pictures of him shooting . i ' m not much into blood sports , but these things came my way when his daughter moved away from palm springs , these things she didn ' t really want in her new house . she said i could have them .

ac : if i could switch gears again to hollywood babylon - - i guess for lack of a better term , currently there ' s a " gossip industry . " i mean there are tabloid shows , of course there are tabloid papers . is hollywood babylon in any way a forerunner of this phenomenon ?

ka : well , of course it was , i mean i sort of made a lot of these kind of tabloid gossip papers and things if not respectable at least legitimate . but frankly my interest is more in hollywood ' s past than its present .

ka : well , i go up to the o . j . case and the hugh grants and all those things but , basically , i treat them with a certain contempt . the glamour is just not there for me with the current crop . i mean some of them are good actors and so forth ; i just can ' t get very excited about them .

ac : now tell me about this event called the " re - inauguration of the pleasure dome " that ' s supposed to take place when you come .

ac : well i guess you know that will be one of the panel topics when you come to town - - the influence of the avant garde on mainstream cinema .

ka : well , of course , people steal from me and it doesn ' t mean that i ' m particularly happy about it , but there ' s nothing i can do about it and i can ' t copyright my images . i will say i ' m " bemused , " particularly by borrowings by mtv . and there are several groups that have done practically carbon copies of certain scenes from my films . and of course they ' ve never given me a call saying , " why don ' t you make a music video for us ? " i could use the money . unless i didn ' t absolutely despise the music , i might even think of doing it . but it ' s never happened . it ' s much easier for them just to steal . and the younger generation , people that are making mtv , some of them have moved into hollywood films , but they are a generation of magpies , outrageous thieves , stealing ideas right and left . and they have amazingly little imagination of their own . if they didn ' t have people to steal from , i mean they ' d really be hard up . and that ' s my opinion of them . i hope that doesn ' t sound bitter ! i ' m mostly just bemused .

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depicts a dream sequence about the brutal rape and torture of anger himself ( as a teenager ) by a group of sailors on the street ( after trying to pick one of them up ) .

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a woman dressed elegantly walks purposely through the water gardens at the villa d ' este in tivoli , as the music of vivaldi ' s " winter " movement of " the four seasons " plays . heavy red filters . . . see full summary »

pierrot waxes romantic , entranced by the moon . harlequin appears and bullies him , then uses a magic lantern to project an image of columbine . pierrot tries to court the illusory columbine . . . see full summary »

a soundtrack plays folk rock as a woman prepares , at noon , to take her borzois for a walk . she goes through her dresses , all 1920s style flapper gowns , holding them one at a time , shaking . . . see full summary »

a slavonic mass by leos janácek plays as historical figures , biblical characters , and mythical creatures gather in the pleasure dome . aphrodite , lilith , isis , kali , astarte , nero , pan , and . . . see full summary »

a man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of " dream lover " .

a gang of nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual , sadistic , and occult images are cut together .

experimental short , featuring strobe - like erotic imagery with several shots of the rolling stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by mick jagger .

egyptian gods summons the angel lucifer - in order to usher in a new occult age .

a woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality . through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space , her dark inner desires play out on - screen .

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video : kinsey ' s meeting with kenneth anger at aleister crowley ' s abbey thelema .

the blood being pulled from the nostrils . the shower of semen . the roman candle cock .

and so , underground cinema is inaugurated with anger ' s visionary and " buñuelian " homoerotic masterpiece heavy on the symbolisms and on the subjects of repression and personal suffering . voilá .

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anger has correctly pointed out in interviews that lucifer is indeed the light - bearer of the gods and not satan , which he calls a “christian slander . ” on this point i am especially indebted to william c . wees analysis of anger’s work in light moving in time ( oxford : university of california press , 1992 ) 107 - 123 .

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1st caring for injured disabled in self - propelled wheelchairs . disabled sit in wheelchairs and are used in . east frisia : war invalids work retraining village - in the nursery . dinner bell is rung . disabled go door - to - door . at the door writing classroom . lessons in schneider stube .

( 36 m ) 02 . streiflichter from germany a . munich : exhibition of youth exhibition of children ' s drawings . laughing children . stands for career choices . craft booth . workers shows patches on a street . carpenter , plumber , mason . swing on a figure sculpture . artfully forged box .

( 33 m ) b . obersalzberg : hitler ' s estate is agricultural school landscape of the obersalzberg . reconstruction of the court to the agricultural school . women when wiping table and bed - making . pig and piglet the pig . the haflinger stud horses run manor . farmers harvesting hay before grazing herd . cows and horses in the meadow . the berchtesgadener land . ( 25 m ) c . crowded holiday trains queues of people before the ticket office . crowded platform with people on the train . people go with luggage in the train window . train with passengers on the running boards and on the roof of the train .

houses are under water ( 26 m ) 03 . flood in china in the southern provinces of china . people riding in boats . chinese are working on dikes . flooded rice fields . farmers to try to salvage rice plants out of the water . chinese in line up for food . distribution of rice . children eat with chopsticks , great . mother feeding child with chopsticks .

( 42 m ) 04 sports a . mannheim : german rowing championships qualifying run of the eights , totally . accompanying train along with spectators on the shore . spectators sit on the shore . home to the limit of the aft . 5 boats are in the race , including mannheim amicitia , mühlheim rowing club , frankfurt germania . passing to rubble . it wins the rowing community of flörsheim rüsselsheim , germany . see the rowers of the winning boat of georg von opel , of the race in the one won , half close , congratulations .

( 32 m ) b . berlin : police sports festival group demonstration of self - defense . 4 x 100 m relay . it wins the police school in spandau . the winning team receives a silver cup .

( 22 m ) c . wuppertal : german water polo championships swimming pool with water ballspielern . spectators around the basin , total . play it : water sports hanover with swimming friends barmen . spectators waving flags . barmen wins with 5 : 3 . endgame : duisburg 98 against swimming friends barmen . ball flies over gate . goal throw . it wins barmen with 4 : 3 spectators clap .

mattsee : dance course harald kreutzberg harald kreutzberg dances . kreutzberg displays dance movement . young girl dancing in group with harald kreutzberg .

( 17 m ) 06 . siena : at a gallop to the marketplace the marketplace in siena . start the horse at a gallop around the market square . horse crashes into the curve , rider falls , total .

( 20 m ) 07 . a feast day in heidelberg - inauguration of the old bridge aerial view of the city . people in boat trip and get to the other shore of the neckar . the castle . panoramic view over the roofs of the old town . the hotel zum ritter . the university . students . the old neckar bridge . decorated main street . people at festival meeting at inauguration of the bridge .

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an iconoclastic and homoerotic look at a man who dreams of sailors , made when anger was a teenager . shot over a weekend when his parents were out of town , anger stated , “this flick is all i have to say about being 17 , the united states navy , american christmas and the fourth of july . ”

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roberto rossellini , paisà ( paisan ) , 1946 , 35 mm , black - and - white , sound , 120 minutes . joe ( dots johnson ) and pasquale ( alfonsino pasca ) .

kathryn bond stockton has argued that the child of the twentieth century was queered by innocence , color , money , and freud . 15 to this damning catalogue , let us add war . images of devastated childhood are among the most memorable in war’s distended photographic archive : a doomed boy , arms upraised , stands with other warsaw ghetto jews under the watch of an armed german soldier . one is certain that this child , as roland barthes muses about another boy elsewhere , is both dead and going to die . 16 in another searing image , a naked vietnamese girl , her body scorched by napalm , runs down a road screaming . the silent frame , vibrating from her howl of pain , can barely contain her agony . these are the nightmare visions from which postwar conceptions of childhood cannot awake .

decimating the myth of childhood innocence , war transforms children into witnesses , participants , and casualties . in the twentieth century , war also fundamentally changed the representation of children in visual culture . simultaneously the most vulnerable locus of war’s treachery and the last hope for the future , the child is everywhere in the italian neorealist cinema of the 1940s . in answer to the “representational problems that arise from the surrender of the heroic male protagonist , ” 17 the male child parallels and highlights the limitations of adult male characters . gendered male , neorealism ’s child is a wanderer , an urchin , an orphan , a miniature partisan , and a mimic of adult atrocity . queered , we can find him in neorealism ’s alternate cast of cripples , masochists , suicides , thieves , and murderers . these queer children refuse the paltry forms of reparation and futurity that they are offered . whenever we meet them , we discover that normal conceptions of time and place have been razed .

the tensions that charged midcentury los angeles profoundly shaped anger’s ecstatic vision of besieged sexuality . for anger , who had grown up in santa monicawell known for its gay beaches and nightlifela was a city of desire and oppression . while gay populations had thrived in the city of angels since the turn of the century , wartime brought an upsurge of police entrapment . it also solidified the growing identification of queer desire with aspects of military and physique culture , especially sailor iconography .

following the bombing of pearl harbor , los angeles saw itself as on the front lines of the war in the pacific . civilian patrols were established throughout the city , and beaches were fortified with antiaircraft guns . with la functioning as a “major training and transit point for military personnel , ” 23 up to fifty thousand servicemen could be found there on any given weekend . members of the armed services frequented the local cruising grounds . during the war , diarist donald vining wrote of cruising downtown pershing square for soldiers on leave , as gay men commonly did . 24

the militarization of los angeles was a response to the fear of external threats . but these fears were also internalized . america’s relation to its own racial , ethnic , and sexual others grew increasingly paranoiac . prejudicial violence was directed most explicitly against asian americans , latinos , and african americans . but , as anger experienced personally , it was also directed against gays and lesbians .