Reconstruction 10.3 (2010)
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From Experimental Filmmaker Roderick Coover
Screen Still from Roderick Coover's Canyonlands (Interactive) at www.unknownterritories.org
Canyonlands
Canyonlands (Interactive): Edward Abbey in the Great American Desert, by Roderick Coover from UnknownTerritories.org.
Enter Canyonlands (Interactive) at http://www.unknownterritories.org/Canyonlands/
View a sample of Canyonlands (The Movie) at http://www.edabbey.com.
Canyonlands (www.unknownterritories.org) is a film and interactive documentary about the works of the novelist and essayist, Edward Abbey (1927-1989). Abbey worked as a seasonal ranger and forest lookout in Western parks and forest-lands including Sunset Crater, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Lees Ferry, Organ Pipe, Coronado National Forest, Grand Canyon North Rim, and Glacier National Park. He wrote in praise of wilderness, and he called attention to the destruction of the desert landscape that was being caused by industrial development, road building, ranching, mining, and tourism. His descriptions of eco-sabotage in his novel The Monkey Gang were an inspiration for the formation of the environmentalist organizations such as EarthFirst! In the novel, a group of environmental renegades destroy highway-building equipment and plot to blow-up Glen Canyon Dam. His works call on individuals to be responsible for what they see taking place -- to make choices and take action. Canyonlands takes users into a virtual representation of the Colorado River and Utah canyonlands. There, users will follow Abbey's road and fascinating side routes as they weave their way through history and make choices of their own.
Canyonlands is produced by Unknown Territories LTD. © 2010. All rights reserved.
Desert Interventions, by Roderick Coover, Hikmet Loe, Larry McCaffery and Lance Newman
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