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Films to be screened:

Utopia Part 3: World’s Largest Shopping Mall (2009, 13 mins, co-director Carrie Lozano) - More than twice the size of the Mall of America, the South China Mall in Dongguan, China, seems to have it all: gondolas, carnival rides, palm trees, Teletubbies. It has everything. Everything but people. This short takes us on a tour of the empty hallways and lonely storefronts of this 7 million square foot failed monument to consumerism.

Pie Fight 69 (2000, 10 mins, co-director Christian Bruno) - The 1969 San Francisco International Film Festival opens on the steps of City Hall, but people walking in are unexpectedly attacked by independent filmmakers with pies. This footage was long lost until the filmmakers found it and made it into a movie in the late 1990s.

lot 63, grave c (2006, 10 mins) - The name of Meredith Hunter, the man killed in front of the stage at Altamont, has been almost totally forgotten. Green seeks out what may be the final reminder of Hunter’s existence, an unmarked grave.

Clear Glasses (2008, 3 mins) - A pair of glasses and their strange power as a historical artifact

The Universal Language (work-in-progress, 2011, 32 mins) – An exploration of Esperanto, the language created in the late 19th-century to foster peace, prosperity and goodwill by providing a common language for all humanity. This is the most recent iteration of Sam Green's poetic investigation into the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

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