In this naughty-wink-titled follow-up to Goodbye Gauley Mountain (VL-9/15), U.C. Santa Cruz professor Beth Stephens and former sex worker Annie Sprinkle bring a humorous flamboyance to their claim to be eco-lovers of Earth’s ecosystem—in this particular case, water. The lesbian couple filmmakers serve up lots of footage of like-minded folks—artists, oracles, teachers—in various colorful rituals that have a cheeky edge but are also deeply serious about what we are all doing with the world’s water (including wasting, destroying, and giving it to Nestle to market in bottles). Stephens and Sprinkle tour California’s western coast to check out the infrastructure of water management—crystal-clear creeks overseen by officials, watersheds, and waste treatment centers—but also find despoiled rivers where nothing can live. Along the way, they talk to the people who are working to take care of and protect water. At times, the brassy Stephens and Sprinkle—urinating on the side of a road, stopping for hamburgers, or swimming in the nude—look like stars in a John Waters version of an environmental treatise, but no one can say that watching the ecological content here feels like homework. A wacky public service documentary, this is recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh)
Water Makes Us Wet
(2017) 80 min. DVD: $149 ($349 w/PPR). DRA. Juno Films. Volume 33, Issue 5
Water Makes Us Wet
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