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Acquainted with the Night: Document Review
Documentary "Acquainted with the Night" (Markham Street Films, 2010) execution is a brilliant examination of how humans will explore, embrace and try to protect the night. Filmed in seven countries and eight languages, the director Michael McNamara and co-producer Jen Recknagel analyze the universality of the items listed under dusk to dawn, the traditions – the curiosity and eagerness to learn, the ritual celebration, the Fear and adaptation, from a Western perspective, the research concern the adverse impact of the night on the individual and society.
The film is based on the book by Christopher Dewdney, Acquainted with the night. Tours around the world after dark, while broken Dewdney night in vignettes per hour based on science, myth and poetry, McNamara proceeds differently, showing the main segments of time: the preparations for the day, evening activities the night, dawn and its consequences.
In Prelude to the film, individuals a diversity of cultures and stages of life show the preparation of the dark, foreboding what the night means to them:
- In the village of Atzompa in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, a family walking along a dirt road with a wheelbarrow and an armful of flowers for the cemetery, the start of Day de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) rituals;
- Members of Astronomers Without Borders to the line of telescopes in Bhaktapur, Nepal, for see Jupiter and its moons;
- A team of researchers arrive at Arches National Park, Utah, to measure light pollution;
- In Greek island of Chios, the inhabitants of two rival cities rocket launch pads ready and in the preparation of a century – old, middle of the night of the fireworks competition;
- A joint group of high – energy lamps in New York near Ground Zero, for a tribute in lights;
- Artists in the Parc des Buttes Chaumant in Paris, France, install their art, and lighting, Nuit Blanche, a unique exhibition.
The introduction continue through darkness, in Austin, Texas. The crowds gather before sunset, eager to see 1.5 million bats fly under a bridge in a frenzy of expansion of the night. This year the bats emerge unexpectedly early, but the crew on the list, do not miss anything and capture the event as is the case.
The way to night, we are worlds apart, a market in Marrakech, Morocco. Children and adults are left with tales of a traditional storyteller, one of only two or three others of its kind. But the narrative is universal, as illustrated by McNamara, taking the viewer from the usual Anglo-French-Moroccan and Canadian homes in Canada, where parents read the same bed, story time their children, "Love You Forever" in English and in French.
McNamara uses his characters, instead of a narrator, in line their thesis. Investigator Chad Moore, pollution measures light with sophisticated instruments, deplores the loss of the ability of the United States to witness the true darkness. That "unite all people across the planet," says Moore. "We have to decide whether it is worth saving," he asks rhetorically. Then, in Nepal, to answer the question, we are placed among astronomers encouraging viewers to take a peak at the largest planet in the solar system. The curiosity, intrigue, wonder and quest to learn about the night, each transcends culture and age.
Returning to North America and the night shift, a long-distance truck driver units across Canada with his son at night, exposing the world of work at night – His charm, danger, and necessity. In the Sleep Clinic and Toronto Alert we learn of the tribulations facing the night shift, and told what disaster today that have occurred during the middle of the night as a result of human error – Chernobyl and Exxon Valdez are some examples. If humanity has to work all night, as suggested, adapt as we do better?
The dark side of the club district land reveals more densely populated, under the supervision of Toronto, Department Police 52 Division. Another aspect of the work the night shift, night patrols, and then bring the revelers, mostly young people when they leave the party soon after 2 am, on drugs or just too much to drink, in either case results in rebellious behavior or violence. Arrest and detention in some cases below, then Finally, the morning cleaning, a night of Last Stand.
McNamara also illustrates how the approach of death differently depending on social mores. In the candle – lit his Mexican Cemetery filmmakers capture the intensity of an elderly couple mourning the loss of his son, decades after his death. He then goes to the grim picture of the light near Ground Zero. In a further night in the town of Mexico, death is remembered not by the ceremony, but now with extras – marked by parades basking in the costumes, dance and song. McNamara, then leads to the pageantry of the celebration Winter Solstice in Toronto Kensington Market. The night is a catalyst for holding similar, almost identically, in dramatic circumstances different.
Provoking thought and particularly striking contrasts occur in the context of McNamara leads to a makeshift runway lighted outdoor hockey by the full moon, then to beyond Yellowknife, the Dene, one of the peoples of the First Nations of Canada, out of their tipis rejoicing the imposing aurora borealis, and yes, tell stories. Cut to Paris, where the artificial light gives a new appreciation of art, and then to New York, where the light pays tribute to the fallen United States. It is difficult to resolve the conflict between the use and appreciation of the night and all its wonders and beauty – a reason for its conservation – and perhaps only as valid, processing and holding of the night, leading to adulteration.
When dawn comes, thousands of rockets past met on the Greek island, the art exhibition in Paris has lost its luster, the lights go out 09.11, the narrator now exhausted Nepal returns home, and villagers Atzompa out by the arc of the cemetery, until the Day of the Dead next year of the Andes.
Familiarization with the Night takes the viewer much more than a journey between cultures spanning the exotic and the familiar, and then back again. It opens our minds to a sample of that most of us miss between going to bed, and derivatives for work the next day. It is inevitable that encourages many to reassess lifestyle unnecessarily formal, through the examination of a world that never knew existed before. Ensures that expose our young people more, but at the same time, he warns, and raises questions – difficult to reconcile with answers.
About the Author
Alvin Starkman received his Masters in Social Anthropology in 1978. After teaching for a few years he attended Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, thereafter embarking upon a career as a litigator until 2004. Alvin now resides in Oaxaca, where he writes, leads small group tours to the villages, markets, ruins and other sites, is a consultant to film production companies, and operates Casa Machaya Oaxaca Bed & Breakfast. ( http://www.oaxacadream.com ) .
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