Suzuki films launch Tech series

By The Standard Staff - 09/25/2005

Biologist David Suzuki's award-winning series "The Sacred Balance" will be featured during the first four weeks of this fall's Citizens' Education Project at Montana Tech.

It's sponsored by the Tech Peace Seekers, Butte's Taking Action for Peaceful Solutions group and Sacred Ground.

Films are shown weekly on the Tech campus beginning Tuesday at 7:15 p.m. in the Science/Engineering Building, Room 113.

"The Sacred Balance" is based on Suzuki's best-selling book of the same name, and was filmed on five continents. It presents a new scientific worldview, an inclusive vision of nature in which we human beings are intimately connected to all life processes on Earth.

Part One, titled "Journey into New Worlds," is a celebration of the birth of a holistic, rather than reductionist, worldview. In conversations with Suzuki, scientists such as E.O. Wilson, Ary Goldberger, Brian Goodwin, Wade Davis, Stephen Lansing and James Lovelock reveal the meaning behind their perceptions and discoveries. The next three parts, each 50 minutes in length, will be shown over the following three weeks.

Also Tuesday, a 30-minute film will be shown on the destruction of Falluja, Iraq, by Hamodi Jasim. "Testimonies from Falluja" was made in 2004.

Besides the complete Suzuki series, viewers will see in following weeks: "The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror," "Control Room," "Plan Colombia," "Nuclear Dynamite," "Bombies," and David Ray Griffin's expose, "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions." Science/Engineering is the first building overlooking the city just south of the Marcus Daly statue at the Park Street entrance to Montana Tech. All films are free to the public.

Professor George Waring of the Liberal Studies Department will lead post-film discussion. For more information, call 723-3851.