River Runners: Knight & Rummel Ruminate On Damming Evidence
Just as directors Ben Knight and Travis Rummel’s Red Gold firmly yet astutely opposed the mining of the Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska, their latest collaboration unabashedly critiques America’s long held obsession with damming our waterways with a striking intelligence that not only plays to their outdoorsy compatriots with a predilection for fly fishing and whitewater rafting, but anyone with an appetite for environmental activism. And that’s not to say that DamNation is completely biased, having explained the bureaucratic history and benefits behind the damming movement in a densely composed, Burns-esque prologue and unsuccessfully sought the input of leaders from the pro-dam party line within the film itself, but its graffiti plastered one-sheet alone makes crystal clear the filmmakers’ intentions – they frankly want these dam things removed.
Inserting himself as narrator and occasional on screen character, Knight begins by setting the political stage,...
Just as directors Ben Knight and Travis Rummel’s Red Gold firmly yet astutely opposed the mining of the Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska, their latest collaboration unabashedly critiques America’s long held obsession with damming our waterways with a striking intelligence that not only plays to their outdoorsy compatriots with a predilection for fly fishing and whitewater rafting, but anyone with an appetite for environmental activism. And that’s not to say that DamNation is completely biased, having explained the bureaucratic history and benefits behind the damming movement in a densely composed, Burns-esque prologue and unsuccessfully sought the input of leaders from the pro-dam party line within the film itself, but its graffiti plastered one-sheet alone makes crystal clear the filmmakers’ intentions – they frankly want these dam things removed.
Inserting himself as narrator and occasional on screen character, Knight begins by setting the political stage,...
- 5/11/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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