Garbage Warrior
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 @ 7.30 pm
Cert 15
Oliver Hodge | UK | 2007 | 87′
This interesting - and timely - documentary profiles unorthodox architect, eco-warrior and founder of Earthship Biotecture, Michael Reynolds. Since the late 1970s, the wild-haired 60-year-old has been setting up communities of increasing size in remote New Mexico locations based on his experimental, self-sufficient houses. His 1972-built ‘Thumb House’ pioneered his use of trash items - old glass and plastic, tin cans, earth-filled tyres - and enclosed sewerage, water and heat collection systems. Since then, his radical and increasingly urgent ideas on sustainable living and his lopsided, idiosyncratic DIY dwellings have brought him into dispute with US state and national planning and legal institutions. Director Oliver Hodge provides an engaging examination of this tireless, free-speaking innovator, a true humanitarian who offers a real alternative to modern living.
Ffilm ddogfen sy’n proffilio’r rhyfelwr-eco Michael Reynolds. Ers diwedd y 70au, bu’n sefydlu cymunedau mewn mannau anghysbell yn New Mexico wedi seilio ar ei dai arbrofol, hunangynhaliol. Mae’n defnyddio darnau gwastraff - ac yn cynllunio systemau o gasglu gwres a dŵr. Ers hynny, mae ei syniadau radical am fyw’n gynaliadwy wedi taro yn erbyn sefydliadau cynllunio America. Astudiaeth ddiddorol ac amserol efallai o ŵr sy’n cynnig ffordd o fyw arall yn yr oes sydd ohoni
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