Looking for online environmental video recommendations.
April 18, 2011 2:43 PM   Subscribe

I'm looking for awesome short environmental videos available online, to be included in an environmental video festival. Thoughts?

I'm hoping to put together a film festival where everything screened is an environmental video found online. Here are more specifics of what I'm looking for:

- Video is available streaming online.
- Video is somehow focused on the environment/environmentalism/environmental topics.
- Video is short (less than 15 minutes).
- Video is rad.

As an example of what I'm looking for, here's a great video from Brazil. Though this video is, your suggestion does not need to be funny or animated or foreign - I'm very open to content/theme/feel, so long as it meets the above requirements.

Finally, please don't suggest The Story of Stuff or any of Annie Leonard's other work - her work is great, but I've already received this recommendation 8,000 times.

Thanks so much for your time and help!
posted by binocularfight to Media & Arts (7 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Try a search for video on IIED's site, or check out their YouTube channel.
posted by cbrody at 2:58 PM on April 18, 2011


This five-minute HD trailer for Planet Earth. Gorgeous music, spectacular visuals, and no voice-over work to distract from the images.
posted by Rhaomi at 3:52 PM on April 18, 2011


Frac Attack: Dawn of the Watershed is a bit longer, but fits all other criteria!
posted by tchemgrrl at 6:20 PM on April 18, 2011


It violates one of your rules, being 18:33, but Plastic Bag by Ramin Bahrani might interest you. Werner Herzog stars as the bag. I'm not even kidding.
posted by AmbroseChapel at 8:10 PM on April 18, 2011 [2 favorites]


Just a teaser trailer, but it could be viewed as a self-contained short as well:
Lost and Puget Sound (teaser)
posted by aMeta4 at 1:10 AM on April 19, 2011


Whoops, dead link. Here's the movie.
posted by tchemgrrl at 9:03 AM on April 19, 2011


Response by poster: Thanks for all your suggestions, everyone! @AmbroseChapel, I'm so glad you posted that video, despite my rules - it's amazing, and it's totally going to be the headliner. Thanks!
posted by binocularfight at 12:36 PM on April 19, 2011


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