Screening at MoMA as part of the Film exhibition Canadian Front 2009.   2009. Canada. Directed by Peter Mettler. “Located beneath 4.3 million hectares of boreal forest in Alberta, Canada, the tar sands are a mixture of sand, clay, and a heavy crude oil called bitumen that is either mined in open pits or extracted from underground by injecting superheated water” (Petropolis-film.com). Mettler, one of Canada’s leading media artists, aerially filmed a mining area the size of England, and his images speak far louder than words. Made for Greenpeace Canada. 43 min. Friday, March 19, 2010, 6:00 p.m., Theater 1 Monday, March 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m., Theater 1