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Realizes use of concentrated fuel for extended runtimes
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
Tokyo, January 26, 2004
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of a new fuel-cell material technology that enables the use of 30% methanol - highly concentrated methanol - as a fuel source, as well as a prototype power unit that incorporates the technology. This technology enables much higher power capacities for passive micro fuel cells (*1) and realizes longer runtimes for mobile devices such as notebook PCs, PDAs and mobile phones. Fujitsu's New Technology Fujitsu developed a new material technology for the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) (*2). An aromatic hydrocarbon solid electrolyte material, which allows slow methanol permeation, is covered with a high density of highly active platinum-based nano-particle catalyst with methanol blocking properties. This reduces the total MEA methanol crossover effect to one-tenth that encountered with typical fluorinated polymers.
Background As notebook PCs, PDAs and mobile phones evolve to deliver higher performance and greater functionality, they have also come to demand more electrical power. But the lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries commonly used today have already approached the limits of their capacity, which has made the development of a higher-capacity power source a matter of greater urgency. Micro fuel cells, envisioned for use in mobile devices, generally use alcohol solutions as fuel. In terms of energy density, these fuel cells offer up to 5-10 times the power per unit weight of a Li-ion battery. From the user's perspective, micro fuel cells have advantages in that they offer cheap and easy means to power electronic devices by simple refueling, enabling continuous use when traveling with no access to the power grid.
Technological Challenges Passive systems are best suited for micro fuel cells to help keep the package compact and light, as they do not require fuel pumps or circulatory fans. Thus, in order to obtain long runtimes without such functions, the fuel cells must be able to handle concentrated methanol as its fuel. To date, micro fuel cells mainly have employed fluorinated polymers for their solid electrolytic material. But fluorinated electrolytes are too readily permeated by the methanol molecules in the fuel, so that when concentrated fuels are used, fuel is lost in the generating process and power capacity suffers, and the sub-reaction of methanol and air drastically reduces wattage, creating a problem known as methanol crossover.
Benefits This new material technology for MEA enables the direct use of methanol concentration of 30%, previously too high to use, resulting in greater capacity from passive fuel cells. Applying this technology in a prototype micro fuel-cell system with 300ml of 30% methanol enables a notebook PC to run for eight to ten hours. Furthermore, the prototype fuel cell has been slimmed down to a thickness of a mere 15mm, while delivering power output levels of 15 watts.
Future Development Fujitsu plans to continue developing high-performance materials and refining its manufacturing techniques to develop micro fuel cells that are even more compact and deliver even longer operational run times.
Notes *1. Passive fuel-cell system A fuel-cell system that uses no fuel-supply pumps or circulatory fans, relying entirely on gravity and natural convection to circulate fuel and air, this is ideal for small, lightweight systems *2. Membrane electrode assembly A composite power-generation unit consisting of an electrode catalyst layer and a film (membrane) of a solid electrolytic material, which is the basic unit of a fuel-cell system
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Founded in 1968 as wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited is one of the premier research centers in the world. With a global network of laboratories in Japan, China, the United States and Europe, the organization conducts a wide range of basic and applied research in the areas of Multimedia, Personal Systems, Networks, Peripherals, Advanced Materials and Electronic Devices.
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99 years after Tulsa race massacre, unmarked mass grave found in search for victims, official says
N'dea Yancey-Bragg
Experts searching for victims of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre have found at least 10 bodies in an unmarked mass grave, an Oklahoma state official said Wednesday.
"What we were finding was an indication that we were inside a large area ... a large hole that had been excavated and into which several individuals had been placed and buried in that location. This constitutes a mass grave," said Oklahoma state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck.
There were 10 coffins discovered with what is presumed to be one person in each coffin, Stackelbeck said.
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It will take time to identify the remains and determine whether they were victims of the massacre, according to forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield, a descendant of a survivor of the massacre who is assisting in the search.
Earlier in the week, remains were found in an area known as the "Original 18," where funeral home records show at least 18 Black massacre victims were buried.
Stackelbeck said earlier this week that experts don't plan to intentionally exhume the bodies. After an examination of the remains, they will be returned to the coffin and reburied. The test excavation is expected to take up to a week.
Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum, who first proposed looking for victims of the violence in 2018 and later budgeted $100,000 to fund the search, said experts would attempt to identify the remains and find any descendants of victims who are identified.
Researchers have 'high level of confidence:Excavation resumes for victims of 1921 Tulsa race massacre
"This will be done through forensic analysis of the remains, and by comparing them with funeral home and death certificate records," Bynum said in a statement. "We will continue to take this investigation one step at a time, wherever it may lead."
99 years after Tulsa race massacre:The search for a mass grave is underway
The excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery in north Tulsa resumed for a second time Monday after researchers failed to find victims during a search in July. Research suggests the location could hold an unmarked mass grave, and geophysical survey work previously indicated that the location had an underground anomaly, which signaled the possibility of a grave shaft.
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The violence occurred May 31 and June 1, 1921, when a white mob attacked Tulsa's Black Wall Street, killing an estimated 300 people — mostly Black — and wounding 800 more while robbing and burning businesses, homes and churches.
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Credit cards to promote e-shopping in Chandigarh…
Posted on November 27, 2000 by Editor's Desk
The Tribune,
BROWSE-till-you-drowse is replacing the shop-till-you-drop cult. The difference is that the wives on a shopping binge are missing the "Sale-Sale-Sale" banners and the ambience they are so familiar with. The only thing that remains unaltered is that it's still the hubby's wallet, which is being gnawed.
Online shopping is catching up in Chandigarh. Already, 20,000 families in the city love to e-shop and agencies like Glidemart are making 300 new clients each month. "The response in the city is overwhelming and we plan to start a centre in Ludhiana as well," says General Manager A.V. Unnikrishnan. Glidemart had launched credit card facility last week to augment online sales. "Some defence personnel are preferring this even to CSD canteens," he adds, and places his monthly net earnings at Rs 3 to 4 lakh on sales execution of Rs 40 lakh worth of items per month. Unnikrishnan feels that Glide has got a boost as an Internet service provider (ISP) because of Glidemart. "Soon we are going to include a section on automobiles and real estate," he says.
A rival ISP, Satyam Infotech, would, however, like to remain focused on providing the Internet service. Nevertheless, Anil Kaura, a manager from Satyam, agrees that Chandigarh is fast becoming an e-shopping enabled city but says the rate of growth in Ludhiana is faster than Chandigarh. "Even Jalandhar is faring well," he adds.
The city is a slice from the cake of the trend that's sweeping the nation, at least the metros. Software conglomerate Nasscom says that Indian e-commerce (including online shopping sites) may do $ 7-million worth of business in 2000. This would further jump to $ 2.5 billion by 2002. Portals like Indiamart are only too happy at this projection. Indiamart witnessed Rs 600 crore of business last financial year. "We received orders worth $ 3,600 within a week's period at indiangiftsportal.com this Divali," says Amit Gundh, Manager, Communications, Indiamart.
Still, glitches need to be removed, feel many. Apart from the hackneyed issue of bandwidth, most of the e-shoppers feel that the "delivery-kink" too needs to be ironed out.
Recently during a 20-day refresher course on e-commerce at Panjab University, when a group of 42 participants were to be shown how online shopping actually worked, the Professor in-charge ordered sugar through Glidemart. After browsing through various kinds of sugar listed, they ordered some quantity. The sugar finally arrived after what seemed like ages. "Placing orders on the Net is okay, but how does one explain problems of actual product delivery. The Web cannot take care of traffic snarl-ups and human goof-ups," the in-charge says.
"Initially, most Chandigarhians went in for e-shopping due to curiosity. Today, however, some of them say that the 'feel-and-touch component' is missing," notes Gagan Kaur from NIIT.
Prof P.P. Arya is more specific. "Most of the products sold are branded. The feel component can be taken care of at the time of delivery. However, the choice factor may suffer," he says, but reiterates that once Net penetration in Chandigarh goes up, e-shopping will pick up at a much faster rate.
Mr Prabhakar, Manager, Fifth Generation, an I-91 franchise, agrees and says that with terms and conditions of Net browsing getting easier through cable connectivity, online shopping will increase. "Customers will get more time to browse for the product and its components in detail," he says. His company provides Net connections at homes through cable at Rs 400 for 4 hours a day (or 120 hours) per month through 512 Kbps of bandwidth.
Jaldi.com, an e-tailing portal that claims that sales orders on its site crossed Rs 4.5 crore in May, analysed customer behaviour and concluded that consumers prefer to e-shop for high-value products, mainly air-conditioners, refrigerators, televisions, mobile phones and audio products, though groceries remained on the top of the chart in terms of sheer volume. It was also determined that the profile of the surfers was mainly middle and upper income class.
Certainly, online shopping is not everyone's cup of tea and many avoid it, deliberately. Says Tamanna, a housewife: "This may affect my evening outings. I am happy with conventional shopping," she says. So the next time you see shoppers munching popcorns or digging into a softy cone in Sector 17, do not blame the bandwidth.
While the Net cannot replace the shopping plaza, it is catching on, and catching on fast.
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Q: Removing span tags issue if text has encoded characters I'm looking to remove span tags that wrap blocks of text in an in-browser editor but am having trouble if the text contains any sort of special characters like newline '\n' or encoded characters like   , • , etc.
Here's my code that works on sentences without encoded characters
function fnIgnoreThisErr(evtTargID){
    // use the passed parameter
    var errIdx = evtTargID.substr(evtTargID.indexOf('err-') + 4);
    // buld span tag for finding
    var errSpan = "span.err-" + evtTargID;
    // declare the editor
    var editor = CKEDITOR.instances.editor1;
    // get text from the editor
    var edata = editor.getData();
    // find the specific span in the text
    var spanData = $( edata ).find(errSpan);
    // get outerHTML and innerText to use for replacement
    var myCurrText = spanData[0].outerHTML;
    var myNewText = spanData[0].innerHTML;
    // standard js replace works if no special chars
    var replace_text = edata.replace(myCurrText, myNewText);  //
    // sets the data back in CKEditor
    editor.setData(replace_text);
}

Here's an example of the text with the span tag
myCurrText:
Approval of ICA
\n  GAMA requested further clarification of proposed §§25.1739 (now §25.1729) and 25.1805(b) (now §26.11(b)) requirements that ICA prepared in accordance with paragraph H.

And with the span tag removed.
Approval of ICA
\n  GAMA requested further clarification of proposed §§25.1739 (now §25.1729) and 25.1805(b) (now §26.11(b)) requirements that ICA prepared in accordance with paragraph H.

It works great on plain sentences without any encoded characters. I can switch to jQuery but couldn't get replaceWith to work either.
What am I missing here?

A: I figured it out. There appears to be a discrepancy between html entities and the way they are being rendered/interpreted by the browser and my JS.
i.e. The outerHTML of the span is not a character-for-character match of the text in edata.
So I just get the indexOf value for the start of the span and the length of the span node. However, due to the discrepancy mentioned, this length may include additional characters. So, next, I find the exact position of the '' tag. From there, I build a string variable that exactly matches the text that needs to be replaced.
Here's my final code. (I kept it long-form for clarity)
function fnIgnoreThisErr(evtTargID){
    // use the passed parameter
    var errIdx = evtTargID.substr(evtTargID.indexOf('err-') + 4);
    // buld span tag for finding
    var errSpan = "span.err-" + evtTargID;
    // declare the editor
    var editor = CKEDITOR.instances.editor1;
    // get text from the editor
    var edata = editor.getData();
    // find the specific span in the text
    var spanData = $( edata ).find(errSpan);
    // extract the span class name
    var spanTag = ''
    // find indexOf value for the span opening tag
    var spanPos = edata.indexOf(spanTag);
    // get the initial length of the span.
    var spanLength = spanData[0].outerHTML.length;
    // get the actual text from that span length.
    var spanString = edata.substring(spanPos,spanPos+spanLength);
    // find the acutal position of the span closing tag
    var spanClose = spanString.indexOf('');
    var spanTagClosePos = spanClose+7;
    // extract the true text comprising the span tag
    var spanStringMod = edata.substring(spanPos,spanPos+spanTagClosePos);
    var spanInnerHtm = spanData[0].innerHTML;
    log("errSpan: "+ errSpan);
    log("errSpanClass: "+ errSpanClass);
    log("spanData: "+  JSON.stringify(spanData));
    log("spanPos: "+ spanPos);
    log("spanTagClosePos: "+ spanTagClosePos);
    log("spanStringMod: "+ spanStringMod);
    log("spanInnerHtm: "+ spanInnerHtm);
    var newEdata = edata.replace(spanStringMod, spanInnerHtm);
    log(" newEdata: "+ newEdata);
    // update the editor
    editor.setData(newEdata);
}

I hope this helps someone, somewhere, at some time!
Cheers!

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Q: Magento: images are ingnoring the resize my problem is i am using stock in the channel for my magento store and all the images they are sending are just a link and there plugin is showing those images on our website. but the problem is there images are simply ignoring the resize set up for them.
thumb images are very small but the main images are very big and out of frame. same with product showing on home page (very small) and when we try to zoom in for product images, it show very tiny pictures.
and yes i am also using jQuery light box (which is working fine when we use to host images our self)
the whole problem is started when we sign up for stock in the channel and installed there plugin.
we have tried to edit every single file which could be related to images or jquery light box but no use. we also hired some freelancer to work for us but no one could sort the problem. we are in serious trouble here.
your help would be much appreciated.
Kindest Regards

A: Find if the plugin is over writing any of your theme files and look for something like:
<a href="<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" title="<?php echo $this->stripTags($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image'), null, true) ?>"
       class="product-image">
       <img src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(135); ?>"
       width="135" height="135" alt="<?php echo $this->stripTags($this->getImageLabel($_product, 'small_image'), null, true) ?>" />

The ->resize(135) is setting the resize, next change that and your width and height.
PS: provide more information for a more accurate answer.


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Is On-line activism a good enough reason to...
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Posted August 11, 2013 by AWMWC in Opinion
Is On-line activism a good enough reason to join journalists trade unions?
The latest Arab revolutions which opened the doors for freedom of expression are claimed to produce new forms of corruption that are changing the pillars and foundations of professional associations and trade unions including the Egyptian press syndicates.
{jcomments on}Joining the journalist's trade union is claimed to become a target that has nothing to do with protecting journalist's source of income or ensuring freedom of expression and maintaining free press. Joining the journalist's trade union became part of a plan to shelter and protect individuals who have political views, under the umbrella of the press in the name of journalism.
One of such cases discussed at present is Israa Abdel Fattah's membership at the The Egyptian Journalists Syndicate (EJS) . Israa is an Egyptian activist who had nothing to do with journalism. But she was singled out by Egyptian Businessman and politician, Naguib Sawiris, and offered a job as a host of a television show at prime time on his television Channel "On TV" in January 2012. Her application was sent to the national union of journalists in Egypt to offer her membership, which is still debated.
There are individuals who were nominated to join the journalists' union after the revolution that had no previous professional work in journalism; such as Israa Abdel Fattah who has never published an article in the press before, though she was an on-line activist. This has angered many Egyptian journalists such as Abdel Jawad Abu Kab, who published an article on Egyptian newspaper, Rosa Elyoussef, entitled 'Israa Abdel Fattah's scandal', protesting against her membership. Clearly, journalist's trade union should not be used for political purposes and should scrutinise membership applications.
Israa has co-founded April 6 Youth Movement Egypt in 2008, a group established to support the workers at El-Mahalla El-Kubra industrial town, who were planning to strike on April 6. This group gradually became a popular political movement. Israa was arrested by Egyptian security in 2008. After two weeks in prison she was released, to make a brief public statement renouncing political activism for good. But she reappeared again during the January 2011 protests, calling for ending Hosni Mubarak's regime and started to appear on Al Jazeera television channel to offer updates on the latest news of the opposition.
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HomeCar NewsDaimler and Renault-Nissan break ground at new Mexico plant
Daimler and Renault-Nissan break ground at new Mexico plant
Pearl Daniels
The groundbreaking ceremony was held for a new Daimler and Renault-Nissan Alliance joint venture plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico. An amount of $1 billion is being invested in this plant from where luxury compact cars will be produced.
Called COMPAS (Cooperation Manufacturing Plant Aguascalientes), the new plant will see production of Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler vehicles. Brand identity will be retained with Mercedes Benz and Infiniti vehicles clearly distinct from each other in design, specifications and character.
Groundbreaking joint-venture plant COMPAS of Daimler and Renault-Nissan Alliance in Aguascalientes/Mexico: (from left to right) José Muñoz (Executive Vice President Nissan Motor Co., Ltd and Chairman, Management Committee Nissan North America/NNA), Roland Krueger (President Infinity Motor Company), Ildefonso Guajardo (Mexican Minister of Economy), Eckart von Klaeden (External Affairs Daimler AG), Ryoji Kurosawa (CEO COMPAS), Uwe Jarosch (COMPAS CFO), Armando Avila (COMPAS Board of Directors…
The new plant is located near the Nissan Aguascalientes A2 plant and will have initial capacity to produce over 230,000 units, to be increased to 300,000 units in due course. Direct job opportunities for 3,600 persons and indirect jobs to 12,000 persons are expected due to high level of localization once the plant is fully operational. Production of Infiniti cars will commence in 2017 while Mercedes Benz vehicles will enter production in 2018.
Aguascalientes, Mexico has been selected as location for the new plant due to a well established supplier base and existence of Nissan's manufacturing base in Mexico since 1992. Nissan opened a second manufacturing plant in Aguascalientes in November 2013 while the company also has a plant in Cuernavaca.
These three plants see total production of 850,000 units making Nissan a leader in the region accounting for one in four cars sold. The Renault-Nissan Alliance operates a total of 81 manufacturing bases which include 42 vehicle plants and 39 power-train plants across 27 countries.


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By William F. B. O'Reilly
Trump's 70-plus hours of madness
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul leaves the Foreign Ministry in Moscow in 2013. The Trump administration had considered a request from the Russian government to interview McFaul. Credit: AP / Misha Japaridze
Updated July 19, 2018 7:11 PM
After more than 70 hours, President Donald Trump retracted his openness to handing former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul over to Vladimir Putin's GRU goons for interrogation. Seventy-plus hours, and only just before the Senate voted 98-0, along bipartisan lines Thursday afternoon, to prevent it.
Had Trump tried to ship McFaul east, he would have been impeached. The storming of the Winter Palace would have been quaint by comparison.
Until just before that Senate vote — as near-impossible as it is to believe — the official position of the Trump administration, reconfirmed Wednesday by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was that it was still considering Putin's "incredible offer" to swap McFaul for a dozen alleged Russian hackers indicted by the U.S. government for interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The fact that Trump even considered handing a U.S. ambassador over to a hostile foreign power for interrogation should take the breath away of even the most ardent Trump supporters. That would, literally, be the stuff of treason.
I was beginning to grow accustomed to President Trump over the past month or two. His antics and eccentricities were starting to look harmless, amusing even. For the first time I began to feel I was in on the joke.
But in the span of a week, first at the NATO conference in Brussels and then from a podium beside Putin in Helsinki, came the bracing reminder that the job of a U.S. president is stone-cold serious business. What he does and says changes history. What he doesn't say can move armies.
It's hard to say what's more alarming at this point; the idea that Trump is somehow compromised by Russian intelligence, as I continue to fear, or that he has no idea what he's doing on a world stage that he's insisting on disassembling anyway, possibly just for fun. A third option, which I floated last June, is that Trump is strategically working to align the U.S. with traditionalist Moscow over the progressive European Union in a long-term play. But that now seems too sophisticated for this president, especially without the daily guidance of his former Rasputin-wanna-be chief strategist, Steve Bannon.
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Whatever is driving Trump's pro-Moscow actions, it's now impossible to ignore. We've got a serious problem on our hands, and so do others.
Baltic nations bordering Russia, including Latvia and Estonia, are in a state of alarm. The very hint of the United States reneging on its commitment to the mutual defense of NATO countries puts them at risk of Russian aggression like that being waged against Ukraine. Trump's use of the word "obsolete" in describing NATO, before later taking it back, is gasoline on the fire. So is labeling the European Union a "foe," triggering a German diplomat to suggest publicly that America might potentially have to be seen as an EU "adversary" going forward.
How did we get there, and so fast? Surely there's a way to demand a better shared cost structure with NATO allies without blowing up the alliance.
It looked in June as if Trump and his blind Republican defenders in Washington were winning. It felt like the Trump administration was finally stabilizing. By mid-July, the whole world feels unstable, more so than at anytime in a generation.
The Trump effect is taking hold. God knows where it leads. We are in new territory, comrades.
William F. B. O'Reilly is a consultant to Republicans.
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"And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made". Are we greater than God, so that we don't need rest?
The next time you hear that. Ask yourself… Self, WHO told you that?
Attempting to live up to impossible standards, yours or anyone else's is a prison in itself.


WALT use a variety of materials and techniques.
As part of our 'Bugs' topic, we have used clay to make these objects. Once we have glazed and fired them we will be selling them as part of our Enterprise Project!


Does Kiwi Experience have anything to do with Aussie Experience?
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Tronco Luxurioso Olivier Bougnot, 1992, 12mn, France - Images of flowers and whispered words.
L'Arbre Bleu Marcelle Thirache, 2001, 2mn, France - A plane tree filmed from a window, then painted on.
Landscape (for Manon) Peter Hutton, 1986/87, 11mn USA- Black-and-white homage to the Hudson River School of American landscape painting.
The Flower Fairy Pathe Freres, 1910, 1mn, France- The Pathe stencil-tinting colour process involved the brushing of coloured tints onto each copy of the film, frame by frame, each colour being a separate application.
Im Garten Ute Aurand & Baerbel Freund, 2002, 29mn, Germany- Portrait of a garden, which the gardener and philosopher of nature Karl Foerster designed in 1910 in Potsdam-Bornim, filmed in monthly intervals to show how the garden changed over a year.
The Garden of Earthly Delights Stan Brakhage, 1981, 2.5mn, USA- A collage of mountain zone vegetation.
An Office Worker Thinks of Their Love, and Home Peter Todd, 2003, 4mn, UK- A reflection on the varied cycles of daily life.
Portrait of Ga Margaret Tait, 1952, 7mn, UK- Unwrapping a sweet, digging in the garden, a portrait of the filmmaker's mother at home on Orkney.
Fur Frau Foerster Ute Aurand & Baerbel Freund, 2002, 5mn, Germany - Clearing snow from plants, Frau Foerster seen in her garden.
Valentin de las Sierras Bruce Baillie, 1967, 10mn, USA- Skin, eyes, horses, sun, earth, and a song.
Quiproquo Rose Lowder, 1992, 13mn, France- Nature and industry (filmed at Mount Ventoux and Berre L'Etang).
The films physically are in Berlin, London and Paris, but for two nights in July were in South London at the Museum of Garden History.
here were three strands: films which are painterly - either with paint actually on film like L'Arbre Bleu and The Flower Fairy, or rich with imagery like The Garden of Earthly Delights, and Landscape (for Manon); film poems and film portraits like Fur Frau Foerster, An Office Worker Thinks of Their Love, and Home, Portrait of Ga, and Valentin De Las Sierras; and the essay films, Im Garten, and Quiproquo. Screened together, they overlapped and new resonances emerged.
Running time approx 100 mins Projection by David Leister Curated by Peter Todd.
Works on 16mm film from the collections of bfi London, Light Cone Paris, LUX London and Friends of the German Cinematheque Berlin.