On the saturday it's already time for the
finetuning and testing of the solar system. The students have worked incredibly
hard to finish all the installation so quickly, I can hardly believe we now
have another solar cinema on the road. The last wires are connected and than
the van drives to the sunlight and immediately the panels start charging the
batteries! It works!
Quickly we attach the soundsystem and
videoprojector and we test everything. It's all working like a dream so we can
now sit back and relax for a bit and renew our focuss on the next stop: the
filmprogramme! Monday morning we gather a small group of
students and we discuss the filmprogramme, I show them our Go Greener Shorts
and they show me some of their selected films. We talk about the power that art
has to bring across a message and decide which films bring across our messages.
The students bring in a film from 1989, but watching it it is still so relevant
today. It will fit perfectly in our programme.
We look forward to our first show on tuesday
at the Saes Pena Metro station but we fear for the rain that keeps on falling
down in bucketloads. As we arrive at the school on tuesday afternoon it remains
unclear IF the show can go ahead. My motto is always: 'we will see'......and so
we decide, 'we will see' and a additional tent is hired to offer a dry place the
the possible audience. I do have to take into account that the dutch and brasil
mentality differs when it comes down to 'rain'....as the dutchies will never
let the rain stop them, the people in Rio seem not to move at all when it
rains, as they are used to the waterlevel in the city rising to dangerous
hights..
While we wait I edit a quick 'making of
trailer' and the students finish of their intro trailer and interview. We make
a test setup in school and than decide the show must go on! With 9 of us cramped
in the combi (i cannot believe this little strong hulk can carry us all + the
weight of the solar system), we set off for Seas Pena....On the square about 5
police cars welcome us and we can easily set up and start the show, slowly more
and more people stop and watch our films! With a smile on our faces we tear
down the cinema again when the last short film ends and smile again as we see
the batteries have not used too much power.
1 show down, 2 to go!
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