{"id":687,"date":"2015-10-10T20:26:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T03:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comma-wordpress.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=687"},"modified":"2018-09-12T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T22:30:28","slug":"film-screening-werner-herzogs-where-the-green-ants-dream-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Film screening of Werner Herzog\u2019s &#8220;Where the Green Ants Dream&#8221; (1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-688\" src=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/herzog.png\" alt=\"herzog\" width=\"1125\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/herzog.png 1125w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/herzog-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/herzog-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/herzog-1030x580.png 1030w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/herzog-705x397.png 705w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/herzog-450x253.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, Oct. 16th at 1:00 in SH 2635 Please join us as we open our 2015-16 series, \u201cIn The Desert of the Real\u201d with a screening Werner Herzog\u2019s first film in English. The screening and discussion will be held onFriday, Oct. 16th at 1:00 in SH 2635. Set in the Australian desert, <em>Where the Green Ants Dream<\/em>\u00a0(1984) stages a confrontation between environmental activism and modernization as local Aborigines fight a mining company searching for uranium mining sites. Blending documentary and feature film, Herzog explores the legal and\u00a0philosophical issues behind neocolonialism and the extraction of local\u00a0resources. The screening will be followed by discussion, and food will be provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, Oct. 16th at 1:00 in SH 2635 Please join us as we open our 2015-16 series, \u201cIn The Desert of the Real\u201d with a screening Werner Herzog\u2019s first film in English. The screening and discussion will be held onFriday, Oct. 16th at 1:00 in SH 2635. Set in the Australian desert, Where the Green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,53,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}