Dear Outdoor Enthusiast

As an attendee of the Banff Film Festival, you might be in interested in
an upcoming event on the Caltech campus in Pasadena.  The Telluride Film
Festival will be coming to the Baxter Lecture Hall on October 23, 7:30pm.
this is the same location as for the Banff Festival this past March. The
Banff festival SOLD OUT, and you don't want to miss out on the Telluride Film
festival so order your tickets now!  Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the
door.  Tickets are available from the Caltech Ticket office,
1-888-2CALTECH and at Ticketmaster Outlets.  Film Festival tentative
schedule is posted below, in addition there will be a base jumping and a
ski film, titles to be announced.

For your future reference, the Banff festival will return March 27 to the
Caltech campus and in a larger and nicer theater!  Mark your calendars!

yours,
The Caltech Alpine Club
 

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ODE TO AVALANCHE
Ken Bailey & Michael Friedman

Few forces in nature are as frightening, or as dazzling, as an avalanche.
Marvels of physics, they have the capacity to sweep climbers or skiers to
their death, destroy entire villages and fill the senses with awe.
(United States,  6 min.)

GATHERERS FROM THE SKY
Gauthier Flauder

The Minang live on the shores of Sumatra¹s Lake Maninjao inside a crater
formed by three volcanoes and surrounded by three million coconut trees.
But the Minang no longer climb these trees, instead relying upon monkeys for
the harvest.  Bourhan is now an old man, however, and no longer can train
monkeys... yet a strained marriage and his wife¹s inheritance begin to
unravel his plans for a calmer life.
(France, 26 min.)

THE FATAL GAME
James Heyward and Richard Denison

Australian Mike Rheinberger, 52, had tried six times to reach the summit of
Everest and failed.  It remained his ultimate dream.  The seventh time he
would not give up.  With New Zealand guide and cameraman Mark Whetu to
record the great moment of his life, he summited.  Perhaps he should have
been more concerned that it was so late in the day and their hopes of
descending to camp six were disappearing in the sunset.  But, dreams and
games have a mesmerizing quality, and both men became captured in the same
strange dance.
(New Zealand,  52 min.)

TURTLE WORLD
Nick Hilligoss

A lushly animated allegory about a turtle passing through space, and
providing a richly forested home to the monkeys that come to dwell upon its
shell.  In their industriousness, however, they begin to exploit the
resources of their paradisiacal state.  The consequence is their falling
from grace.
(Australia,  8 min.)
 
 
 

THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES
Frederic Bach

Based upon a Jean Giono novella, and lovingly illustrated by Academy
Award-winning animator Frederic Bach, this story of a man¹s life of quiet
fulfillment in an obscure region of France.  This Academy Award-winning film
remains the favorite Festival film...beautiful and powerful and inspiring.
(Canada,  26 min., animated.)