[ZeroES.announce] Next Tuesday (29th): 1pm WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? 2:30pm I HEART HUCKABEES

[Robert Wiblin]

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Next meeting: Monday 28th May 4pm in ANUSA Conference room (not Degree
this time)

Dear ANU Zero Emissions Society,

We're putting on two entertaining movies next week straight after one
another. If you're getting tired of studying for exams and finishing
off those assignments, come and relax between lectures with these two
intriguing films! :-)

Please forward on to any people or groups who might be interested.

***Movie: WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?***

When: 1:00pm Tuesday 29th May
Where: Manning Clark Center Theatre 5
Who: ANU Zero Emissions Society

About:
In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California.
They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without
gasoline...........Ten years later, these cars were destroyed.

Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary film that explores
the birth, limited commercialization, and subsequent death of the
battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the
General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of
automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government,
batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the
development and adoption of this technology.

Find out more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489037/

***Movie: I HEART HUCKABEES***

When: 2:30pm Tuesday 29th May
Where: Manning Clark Center Theatre 5
Who: ANU Zero Emissions Society

About:
A personal favourite of a few members of the Society, we decided it
would be good to get together and enjoy this strangely entertaining
existential comedy, even though climate change isn't mentioned at all!

Albert Markovski is a young man who heads the local chapter of an
environmental group, the "Open Spaces Coalition". Hoping to find the
answer to what would seem to be an absurd coincidence in his life, he
contacts two existential detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Hoffman
and Tomlin). These detectives offer Albert their optimistic brand of
existentialism — they name it universal interconnectivity (this has
some tenets of romantic or even transcendentalist philosophies) — and
spy on him, ostensibly to help him solve the coincidence. Brad Stand
(Law) is a shallow power executive at Huckabees, a chain of stores
akin to Wal-Mart or Target. He infiltrates Open Spaces and
charismatically displaces Albert as the leader. Bernard and Vivian
introduce Albert to Tommy Corn (Wahlberg), an obsessively
anti-petroleum firefighter and it only gets stranger from there.

Find out more:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356721/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_%E2%99%A5_Huckabees


Hope to see you there!

-- 
Robert Wiblin					Robert Wiblin
Science PhB					President
Australian National University		ANU Zero Emissions Society
e: robertwiblin at gmail.com		e: society at anuzeroemissions.org
p: 02 62628991					w: www.anuzeroemissions.org
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