Just saw this on the SPROUT CSA blog -- as part of the James River Film Festival, the Richmond Moving Image Co-op will be showing the documentary King Corn for free at the Firehouse Theater. A description of the film on the website for the festival says, "In this film by Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, two East Coast college roommates (Cheney and Ellis) move to the Iowa heartland to learn more where our food comes from and the processes it goes through before it arrives." After reading a lot about corn in Michael Pollan's books, it's hard not to feel a perverse interest in the plant, particularly because it is such an integral part of the industrial food chain. And, of course, the King Corn website claims, "what [Cheney and Ellis] find raises troubling questions about what we eat -- and how we farm." The film will show at 7:30PM on March 31st.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
King Corn
Just saw this on the SPROUT CSA blog -- as part of the James River Film Festival, the Richmond Moving Image Co-op will be showing the documentary King Corn for free at the Firehouse Theater. A description of the film on the website for the festival says, "In this film by Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, two East Coast college roommates (Cheney and Ellis) move to the Iowa heartland to learn more where our food comes from and the processes it goes through before it arrives." After reading a lot about corn in Michael Pollan's books, it's hard not to feel a perverse interest in the plant, particularly because it is such an integral part of the industrial food chain. And, of course, the King Corn website claims, "what [Cheney and Ellis] find raises troubling questions about what we eat -- and how we farm." The film will show at 7:30PM on March 31st.
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