Films @ the O

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is pleased to announce a weekend of documentary films that explore Southern culture through music, art and architecture, as well as addressing the future of the region and the United States.

Cost for each film: $5 Ogden Museum & New Orleans Film Society members; $10 general public

Special deal! Three movies: $10 for Ogden Museum/NOFS members; $25 for nonmembers (Live at Preservation Hall: Louisiana Fairytale - A Film by Danny Clinch,Sat. July 23; The Big Uneasy – A Film by Harry Shearer, Sun. July 24; and God's Architects - A Film by Zach Godshall and Emilie Taylor, Mon. July 25. TO ORDER ALL THREE, go to: http://july2011films.eventbrite.com/).

NOTE: TICKETS ARE NOT ISSUED. Check in at front desk.

THE BIG UNEASY - A FILM BY HARRY SHEARER

1:30 p.m. doors; 2 p.m. screening

Cost: $5 Ogden Museum & NOFS members; $10 general public

The first documentary by long-time "mockumentarian" Harry Shearer, The Big Uneasy (95 min.) gets the inside story of a disaster that could have been prevented from the people who were there. Shearer speaks to the investigators who poked through the muck as the water receded and a whistle-blower from the Army Corps of Engineers, revealing that some of the same flawed methods responsible for the levee failure during Katrina are being used to rebuild the system expected to protect the new New Orleans from future peril.

         In short segments hosted by John Goodman, Shearer speaks candidly with local residents about life in New Orleans. Together, they explore the questions that Americans outside of the Gulf region have been pondering in the five years since Katrina: Why would people choose to live below sea level? Why is it important to rebuild New Orleans?

         The Big Uneasy is laced with computer imagery that takes you inside the structures that failed so catastrophically, and boasts never-before-seen video of the moments when New Orleans began to flood and the painstaking investigations that followed. The Big Uneasy marks the beginning of the end of almost six years of ignorance about what happened to one of our nation’s most treasured cities—and serves as a stark reminder that the same agency that failed to protect New Orleans still exists in other cities across America.

For more information about the film: http://www.thebiguneasy.com.

These film screenings are a collaboration between the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (www.ogdenmuseum.org) and the New Orleans Film Society (http://neworleansfilmsociety.org).