What would you do if the electric grid went dead tomorrow? If grocery stores shut down because trucks no longer had gas to make food deliveries?

Self-sufficiency and food security are popular topics in the environmental community today — making for the popularity of books ranging from the somewhat ominous The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook to the more sanguine Farm City. And now, a film called One Hundred Mornings takes a look at the kind of life we might have in a post-petroleum scenario, when society breaks down and people have to quickly learn to fend for themselves.

This film isn’t a doom-and-gloom documentary like Crude Impact, nor an overly-dramatized action thriller like The Day After Tomorrow. Instead, One Hundred Mornings focuses on two couples hiding out at a lakeside cabin in Ireland, 10 weeks after all the lights have gone out. In addition to the stress of dwindling supplies and social unrest enter both a self-sufficient hippie neighbor and suspicions of infidelity!

Watch the preview for a taste of the drama, then see the film during its week-long run at the Downtown Independent Theatre, 251 S. Main St., from Thu., Sep. 16 to Wed., Sep. 22.

0 Comments