What the Thunder Said

United States / Documentary / 00:06:29 min

The Anthropocene, the debated human epoch, whose existence, dating, and parameters are still being contested by the planet’s earth scientists, is not addressed by our film, which confines itself to what we saw as we traversed the American heartland during the summer of 2023, from White Sands and Big Bend National Parks, to Austin and the Texas Hill Country, and on to Cairo, IL, Gary, IN, and points beyond, inspired by the poetry of T.S. Eliot.
Wednesday, 21st Aug 21:00
Block 7
Cafe Cup


Film maker
Pamela Falkenberg, Jack Cochran

Pam is an independent filmmaker who received her PhD from the University of Iowa and taught at Northern Illinois University, St.Mary's College, and the University of Notre Dame. She directed the largest student film society in the US while she was at the University of Iowa, and also ran films series for the Snite Museum of Art in South Bend, IN. Her experimental film with Dan Curry, Open Territory, received an individual filmmaker grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as grants from the Center for New Television and the Indiana Arts Council. OT screened at the Pacific Film Archives, as well at numerous film festivals, including the AFI Video Festival, and was nominated for a regional Emmy.