True/False Films

Secret Screening Orange

In person: the director and Maria Fortiz-Morse, director of Trash Out

The combined lives of the Great Pyramids, Machu Picchu and the Parthenon amount to very little when compared to the time span our nuclear waste must be housed undisturbed. Our Secret Screening Orange examines the forms that nuclear depositories may take, the measures necessary to ensure that they're left alone by unknown future societies and a host of other quandaries. Where others might have simply made a topical issue film, our director gives us labyrinthine tunnels being blasted, provocative interviews with far-sighted scientists, and unbelievably beautiful and haunting cinematography over a pitch-perfect soundtrack. Sublimely unsettling and full of mordant wit, the result plays like a modern mash-up of Errol Morris and Stanley Kubrick. Not to be missed, the film just might make you look differently at your civilization. Plays with Trash Out (dir. Maria Fortiz-Morse; 5 min.): A mesmerizing look at the workers who enter foreclosed homes. (DF)

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