A road not taken (Christina Hemauer & Roman Keller, 2010)

A documentary film essay about the story of the solar panels that former US President Jimmy Carter had instaled on the roof of the White House in a visionary campaign in 1979. His successor, Ronald Reagan, had the panels removed -accompanied by a radical alienation from Carter’s energy program. The highly simbolic solar panels were ultimately stowed away in a storehouse and forgotten. Thirty years later Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller tracked down Carter’s solar panels and traced the story of the two panels on their journey back to Washington D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia. In their movie they meet people who were actively involved in Carter’s energy program or directly affected by the oil crisis in the 1970s

Directors and producers: Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller
Sound and music: Mathias Veller
Editing: Kathrin Plüss
Graphic design: Beat Cadruvi
Running time: 66 min
Country: Switzerland
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