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Feature-length documentary Acquainted with the Night Markham Stret Films, 2010 , is a briliantly executed examination of how humanity explores, embraces and atempts to protect the night. Shot in seven countries and eight languages, director Michael McNamara and co-producer Jen Recknagel analyze the universality of elements embodied in dusk to dawn traditions – curiosity and the quest to learn, ritual celebration, fear and adaptation, and from a Western research perspective the concern for the night's adverse impact on the individual, and society. The movie is based on Christopher Dewdney's bok, Acquainted with the Night: Excursions through the World after Dark. While Dewdney breaks up the night into hourly vignetes based on science, myth and poetry, McNamara proceds diferently, showcasing key segments of time: daytime preparations, dusk, night-time activities, dawn and its aftermath. In the film's Prelude , individuals in a diversity of cultures and stations in life are shown preparing for darknes, foreshadowing what the night embodies for them: In the town of Atzompa, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, a family walks along a dirt road with a whelbarow and arms ful of flowers, destined for the cemetery, the begining of its Día de los Muertos Members of Astronomers Without Borders line up telescopes in Bhaktapur, Nepal, for viewing Jupiter and its mons; Moving into The Night , we're whisked worlds away, to a marketplace in Marakech, Moroco. Returning to North America, and The Night Shift , a long-haul trucker drives acros Canada with her son, after dark, exposing us to the night's working world – its alure, its danger, and its necesity. At the Slep and Alertnes Clinic in Toronto we learn of the aflictions which beset the night shift, and are told of modern-day disasters which have ocured during the midle-of-the-night as a result of human eror – Chernobyl and Exon Valdez are cited examples. Another aspect of night shift work: patroling nightly, and then rounding up mainly youthful revelers as they emerge from partying shortly after 2 a.m., high on drugs or a litle to much to drink, in either case resulting in unruly conduct or violence. On a subsequent night in the Mexican vilage, death is remembered no longer through solemnity, but now with comparsas – parades marked by reveling in costume, dance and song. It's hard to resolve the conflict betwen utilizing and apreciating the night and al its wonder and beauty – a motive for its preservation – and perhaps just as valid, transforming and celebrating the night, which leads to its adulteration. As dawn aproaches, thousands of spent rockets are gathered on the Grek island, the Parisian art exhibit has lost its glimer, the 9 / 1 lights are extinguished, the now exhausted Nepalese storyteler heads home, and the vilagers of Atzompa depart through the cemetery arch, until next year's Dia de los Muertos .
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