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'One Hundred Mornings' without electricity
A dramatic film explores the physical and emotional challenges of living in a peak oil scenario.
Tue, Aug 24 2010 at 3:53 PM
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What would you do if the electric grid went dead tomorrow? If grocery stores shut down because trucks no longer had gas to make food deliveries? Self-sufficiency and food security are popular topics in the environmental community today — making for the popularity of books ranging from the somewhat ominous "The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook" to the more sanguine "Farm City".
And now, a film called "One Hundred Mornings" takes a look at the kind of life we might have in a post-petroleum scenario, when society breaks down and people have to quickly learn to fend for themselves.
This film isn’t a doom-and-gloom documentary like "Crude Impact", nor an overly dramatized action thriller like "The Day After Tomorrow". Instead, "One Hundred Mornings" focuses on two couples hiding out at a lakeside cabin in Ireland, 10 weeks after all the lights have gone out. In addition to the stress of dwindling supplies and social unrest enter both a self-sufficient hippie neighbor and suspicions of infidelity!
Watch the preview for a taste of the drama, and make sure to see "One Hundred Mornings" — which has won the Workbook Project Discovery and Distribution Award — when it comes to a theater near you. The first screenings will happen in Los Angeles at the Downtown Independent Theatre starting Sept. 16, after which the film will travel to Northern California for the San Francisco Irish Film Festival, happening Sept. 23-25.
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The difference between The situation in Iraq or Haiti or anywhere else like that is that there are other places in the world like the US that are still pretty much intact and able to send aid(meddle in their affairs).After the peak no country will be able to really help anyone else.We will all be in trouble at the same time.That's a very different scenario.