A Road Not Taken
Directed by: Christina Hemauer & Roman Keller  -  66 min.  -   Switzerland
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A documentary film essay about the story of the solar panels that former US President Jimmy Carter had installed 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 Carters energy program. The highly symbolic solar panels were ultimately stowed away in a storehouse and forgotten. Thirty years later Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller tracked down Carters 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 Carters energy program or directly affected by the oil crisis in the 1970s.


3:30 pm
Saturday, August 21, 2010
The Carter Center in the Rotunda