Screening | A Road not Taken
Thursday | May 2 | 7PM18 Wooster Street
On the occasion of IDEAS CITY, Swiss Institute is pleased to screen A Road not Taken, a documentary film by Swiss artists Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller. In 1979, Jimmy Carter, in a visionary move, installed solar panels on the roof of the White House. This functional and symbolic installation was dismantled in 1986 during the Reagan presidency. Unity College, an environmentally-minded centre of learning in Maine, acquired the panels in 1991 and later installed them on the roof of the campus cafeteria. In A Road not Taken, filmmakers Hemauer and Keller travel back in time, following the panels' route from the White House to Unity College. The film includes interviews with decision-makers who guided the panels on this journey, as well as with figures from the 1970s energy crisis. It provides a unique look at how this initial installation has presaged our own era.
