Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--"Documentaries on the Edge"--"Vernon, Florida" + "Lessons of Darkness"

Film Screening: "Vernon, Florida" (Errol Morris, 1981, 55 min, USA, in English, Color, Blu-Ray) / "Vernon, Florida" is an odd-ball survey of the inhabitants of a remote swamp-town in the Florida panhandle. Henry Shipes, Albert Bitterling, Roscoe Collins and others discuss turkey-hunting, gator-grunting and the meaning of life. / Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2adr2XgQJKQ // "Lessons of Darkness" (Werner Herzog, 1992, 54 min, Germany/France/UK, in English and German w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray) / Straddling a line between documentary and science fiction, Werner Herzog's "Lessons of Darkness" ("Lektionen in Finsternis") is an epic visual poem set in the burning oil fields of Kuwait following the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War. Alternately horrific and majestic, the movie is a phantasmagoric, if distanced, catalog of horrors./ Winner of Grand Prix Award in Melbourne International Film Festival (1993)!/ Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPwmsbbcG6Q