Alaska films with Director John Grabowka
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Alaska films with Director John Grabowka
CROWN of the CONTINENT is a lyrical journey through the largest wilderness you've never heard of: Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias, a national park larger than Switzerland, with higher mountains. 'THE ENDS of the EARTH - Alaskas Wild Peninsula is a poetic film essay profiling the remote Alaska Peninsula, a cloud-cloaked landscape where giant brown bears outnumber people and the sockeye salmon run is the largest in the world.
1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA
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Location: 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA
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Alaska films with Director John GrabowkaCelebrate the outdoors and see two superb films by director John Grabowska about Alaska.
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March 14 from 4-6pm at the Center for Contemporary Arts.
CCA is located at 1050 Old Pecos Trail
The Northern Group had two of John's films about New Mexico full-house presentations previously at the Travel Bug. We are pleased to have him present two more outdoor films.
CROWN of the CONTINENT is a lyrical journey through the largest wilderness you've never heard of: Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias, a national park larger than Switzerland, with higher mountains.
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THE ENDS of the EARTH - Alaska’s Wild Peninsula is a poetic film essay profiling the remote Alaska Peninsula, a cloud-cloaked landscape where giant brown bears outnumber people and the sockeye salmon run is the largest in the world.
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CROWN OF THE CONTINENT - Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias
A lyrical journey through the largest wilderness you've never heard of: Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias, a national park larger than Switzerland, with higher mountains. Crown of the Continent profiles a wild, remote, alpine landscape of incomprehensible grandeur containing the highest coastal mountains in the world, peaks with more vertical relief than the Himalayas and the greatest concentration of glaciers outside the polar icecaps.
In a profile The Washington Post wrote: "When he made 'Crown of the Continent' for Wrangell-St. Elias, Grabowska realized that the place was eerily familiar. He asked his mother to send him some old 8mm home movies and, sure enough, his family had visited the area when he was a child, long before it became a park. What's more, the Wrangell trip was one of the last times Grabowska remembered his father, who later succumbed to multiple sclerosis, being at the height of his physical powers. After wrestling with whether to add such highly charged personal memories to the film, Grabowska finally did; the result is both a spectacular testament to 'the architectonics of the planet itself' and a surprisingly intimate and moving tribute to his own father's dreams."
"Lovely and touching, I was caught up in it all the way."
John McPhee
"Brave, stunning and eloquent."
International Quorum of Producers
"Una romantica immagine del territorio selvaggio dell'Alaska."
Trento International Mountain Film Festival
THE ENDS OF THE EARTH - Alaska’s Wild Peninsula
The Alaska Peninsula is a cloud-cloaked land of active volcanoes, rolling tundra and the greatest concentration of the largest bears on earth. The writings of naturalist Loren Eiseley inspire this filmic essay on a landscape where bears outnumber people and the sockeye salmon run is the most prolific in the world. At the base of the peninsula lies Katmai National Park, a wilderness larger Yellowstone and Yosemite -- combined. Farther down the peninsula a giant volcanic caldera emerges on the horizon, so remote that more people climb Everest than visit Aniakchak. But Alaska is warming at more than twice the rate of the rest of the planet; The Ends of the Earth, John Grabowska's lyrical film on the Alaska Peninsula, asks how climate change effects will impact this magnificent land of wilderness and wildlife. Narrated by acclaimed writer and environmentalist N. Scott Momaday with a score by Academy Award-winner Todd Boekelheide.
"A meditative, Thoreauvian exploration of wilderness and humanity."
Cosmoetica
“John Grabowska is a national treasure.”
The Smithsonian Institution
Photo Details:
CROWN OF THE CONTINENT first ascent of an unnamed peak in the St. Elias Range
THE ENDS OF THE EARTH adult male brown bear fishing at Crosswinds Lake in the northern part of Katmai National Park on the Alaska Peninsula
Leader: John Buchser 505 231 6645 jbuchser@comcast.net
Location: Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe
Cost: 10.00 donation please
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