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Lunar Healing (Kelly Loudenberg)

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The Interstellar Light Collector is a 25-ton, five-storey-tall array of 84 mirrors that concentrates the moonlight into a small area. Each month, people come to bathe in the concentrated moonlight as part of their moonlight therapy. Co-Founder/Inventor Richard Chapin is convinced that his invention can help people conquer depression, arthritis, and even some types of cancer. Scientists say no real research has been conducted and what people are experiencing may be the placebo effect.

02:57

Bed: A place Called Home (Basil Shadid)
Billie experiences joy and meaning even when her tumors make bed a place called home.

03:15

My Girl Can Fight (Justin Frimmer)
Father and daughter in East Los Angeles discover they are fighting for each other inside and outside the ring.

03:08

Repelling the Viewer (Abigail Norris & Jerry Rothwell)
Johannes Phokela, as he explains, has always been fascinated by iconic images and how they have “infiltrated our lives.” So this very unusual painter takes those images from classic paintings of the European masters and twists and turns them into satires of contemporary life. It might be turning a muscular white man black as he drapes himself over a nude woman, or hanging a cigarette from the mouth of a female, or adding a clown nose here and there. Filmmaker Jerry Rothwell’s camera captures Phokela at work, putting words to the brush strokes that transform allegories from centuries past into notions that could be considered subversive, as an unsettling cello underlines notions that could be considered subversive. At least, Phokela hopes so.

03:07

Arcosanti (Kelly Loudenberg)
Began in the 1970s as an experimental city and urban laboratory, Arcosanti continues its mission today by proposing an alternative to urban sprawl. Arcosanti seeks to give the urban system a boundary, keeping the natural countryside in close proximity to its urban dwellers. Located in the high desert of Arizona, just 70 miles north of Phoenix, Arcosanti will house 5,000 residents and will occupy only 25 acres of a 4060-acre land preserve when complete.

03:25

Wait for Me (Ross Kauffman)
“Wait for me. Wait for me and I will return.” Thus begins an extraordinary film that began a few years ago when a friend of filmmaker Ross Kaufmann casually mentioned in conversation the disappearance of a brother several decades years earlier. Kaufmann became intrigued with the 'Into Thin Air'-style story of John, a young man who set off on a bicycle trip through Europe and eventually to India to find himself - and was never heard from again. Alternating between John’s loving mother describing her son and his journey, her voiceover as she reads aloud from his letters to her during his trip, and home movies of John, first as a child with an adorable smile and later as a young man, Kaufmann depicts a life’s search for meaning. With heartbreaking sensitivity, he allows John’s mother to tell the story that only a mother could tell, and to explain how, 22 years later, she has followed her son’s written plea to continue to wait for him.

03:04

Ageless Sex (Marc Silver)
Although overtly 'about sex', the film is really about what individual freedom means. Initially inspired by a video art installation, the piece reveals the complexities of pornography, old age and individual choices.

03:14

Ahmad Zahir for Beginners (Liz Mermin)
Known as the Elvis of Afghanistan, Ahmad Zahir died in a car crash in the 1970s, fueling decades of speculation as to what really happened. Beyond the mystery, though, Zahir's music wafts from the windows of Afghans' homes around the world, helping exiles and refugees stay connected to their tortured native land - and offering a sense of identity to their children who have never seen the country from which their parents fled.

03:26

Swing State (Cameron Hickey)
Tuesday mornings are reserved exclusively for women golfers at the Llanerch Country Club in the Main Line section of suburban Philadelphia - a key region in this swing state for the 2008 election. Mary Pat McClatchey and her friends golf every Tuesday morning at 8am before having lunch at the clubhouse, an event which you can "hear all across the club" says fellow Llanerch club member Thomas Feeney. We'll follow Pat and her golf foresome through eighteen holes of golf and their ladies' lunch afterward. We'll ask them how "historic" they feel this election is, how they and their respective families feel about the candidates this year, and what this means for their children's future. As a critical swing area in a critical swing state, the Main Line is part of the broad center in American politics, and these women are at the heart of this pivotal battleground.

03:37

The View from Madison Street (Steve James)
African-Americans from this largely forgotten stretch of inner-city Chicago speak out about race, class and how neither of the then-presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, was addressing the issues of poverty that plague their community.

03:12

Ms. Salmon (Valerie Shields)
"Grey Gardens" meets "The Cove"… Kooky British marine philanthropist, whose real name is Melanie Salmon, makes sea conservation more glamorous with London Fashion Week, movie-star Sharon Stone, and boxing-champ Chris Eubank. "Save the dolphins!"

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