Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea
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Last Login: 9/30/2009
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| Website | saltonseadoc.com | | Influences | The odd, off-beat, weird, and surreal. Folks like Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Penelope Spheeris, Spike Jonze, Oliver Stone, and Gus Van Sant. | | Directors | Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer. | | Awards | HBO Producer’s Award - Savannah Film Festival, BAVC Videomaker Award, Robert Altman Award, and 33 Awards for Best Doc. | | Festivals | Slamdance Film Festival
Independent Film Festival of Boston
San Franicsco DocFest
Palm Springs Intl Film Festival
True/False Film Festival
Lausanne Underground FF
Santa Barbara Intl Film Festival
Silverlake Film Festival
Detroit Docs
Savannah Film Festival
D.C. Independent Film Festival
Cucalorus Film Festival
Denver Underground Film Festival
Provincetown Film Festival
Milwaukee Intl Film Festival
Santa Fe Film Festival
Idaho Film Festival
Bend Film Festival
Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival
Hot Springs Documentary Festival
Atlanta Underground Film Festival
Edmonton Intl Film Festival
Planet In Focus Environmental Film Festival
Portland Intl Film Fesitval
Minneapolis/St. Paul Intl FF
Rhode Island Intl Film Festival
Atlantic Film Festival
Jacksonville Film Festival
Maryland Film Fesitval
Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival
Maine Intl Film Festival
Wild & Scenic Environmental FF
Texas Film Festival
Newport Beach Film Festival
Ohio Independent Film Festival
Texas Documentary Tour
USA Film Festival
Melbourne Underground FF
Rural Route Film Festival
Rooftop Film Series
Planet Ant Film Festival
Southside Film Festival
Plymouth Independent FF
Wild River Film Festival
Docville
Camden Int’l Film Festival
American Conservation Film Festival
Wildscreen
Missoula Int’l Wildlife FF
Tacoma Film Festival
Evil City Film Festival
Tallgrass Film Festival
Connecticut Film Festival
Charleston Documentary FF
MassBay Film Festival
California Indie FF
Estes Park Film Festival
| | Professional Affiliations | Docurama
Sundance Channel
Cinema Guild
Roco Films
KQED
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| General |  | | Music | Friends of Dean Martinez, Throw Rag, Sonny and Cher. | | Movies | Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea. | | Television | Huell Howser's "California's Gold" and Showtime's "This American Life." | | Books | Lost America, Salt Dreams, and Greetings from the Salton Sea. | | Heroes | Sonny Bono. |
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fishbone2006, Tucson FILM, Environmentalists, The Michael Krasny Appreciation Society, Taxidermy Enthusiasts of America, Taxidermy-stuffing is fun, Georgia Underground, Poetic Policy
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| Status: | Swinger | | Hometown: | Bombay Beach, California | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio |
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Buy the DVD at the
Plagues & Pleasures website.
A feature documentary directed by Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer, with narration by legendary counterculture filmmaker John Waters and music by the southwestern, alt-rock supergroup, Friends of Dean Martinez.
Once known as the California Riviera, the Salton Sea is now called one of Americas worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, coughing up dead fish and birds by the thousands. Yet a few hardy eccentrics hang on to hope, including a roadside nudist waving at passing European tourists, a man building a religious mountain out of mud and paint, beer-loving Hungarian Revolutionary Hunky Daddy, and the real-estate Ronald McDonald known simply as The Landman. Through their perceptions and misperceptions, the strange history and unexpected beauty of the Salton Sea is revealed.
Accidentally created by an engineering error in 1905, reworked in the 50s as a world class vacation destination for the rich and famous, and then suddenly abandoned after a series of hurricanes, floods, and fish die-offs, and finally almost saved by Congressman Sonny Bono - the Salton Sea has a bittersweet past.
Now amongst the ruins of this man-made mistake, these few remaining people struggle to keep a remodelled version of the dream alive. However, this most unique community is now threatened by the nearby megalopolises of Los Angeles and San Diego, as they attempt to take the agricultural run-off that barely sustains the sea. The fate of this so-called ecological time bomb and the community that surrounds it remain uncertain, as the Salton Sea might just dry up.
While PLAGUES & PLEASURES covers the historical, economic, political, and environmental issues that face the sea, it more importantly offers up an offbeat portrait of the eccentric and individualistic people who populate its shores. It is an epic western tale of fantastic real estate ventures and failed boomtowns, inner-city gangs fleeing to white small town America, and the subjective notion of success and failure amidst the ruins of the past. Hair-raising and hilarious, part history lesson, part cautionary tale and part portrait of one of the strangest communities youve ever seen, this is the American Dream gone as stinky as a dead carp.
Find out more about the people and place at the
Plagues & Pleasures website.
Read reviews at the
Internet Movie Database - IMDB.
Check out the Plagues & Pleasures FLICKR page.
Watch the brand new short on Salton Sea resident, Leonard Knight at
PBS' Independent Lens.
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