Hundred Year Films

21/06/2024

Almost.

18/06/2024

On May 29, the world lost a good photographer and tireless champion of the NJ Pine Barrens. Rest in Peace Al Horner.

15/06/2024

ROOTED plant videos. New Season. Coming Summer 2024. Hundred Year Films Wild Ridge Plants

06/06/2024

Raking the barley -- at Rabbit Hill Farms

30/05/2024

The Good Stuff. New Jersey brewed organic beer with New Jersey grown and milled organic grains. River Valley Community Grains, Chilton Mill Brewing

26/04/2024

In the cactus fields

09/04/2024

Milling in Marksboro with River Valley Community Grains

22/03/2024

Planting spring oats before the rain. with Morganics Family Farm

08/03/2024

Native plant/photography lovers: Hundred Year Films is hiring a production assistant for a new season of ROOTED in New Jersey.

https://www.hundredyearfilms.com/jobs

11/01/2024

SNOW DAY AT THE SYRUP FARM:

On my first day of filming Sugar House Yantra—December 20, 2021—maple syrup farmer Charlize Katzenbach remarked that never in 35 years had she started tapping maple trees before the Winter Solstice. But on this day the sun had not yet set on autumn, and here she was out drilling tap holes. In our modern era, the sap starts running before winter has even properly arrived.

It’s not completely clear what impact climate change will have on maple syrup farmers in North America, but many signs point to bad. According to the United States Geological Survey, “Changes could lead to lower rates of syrup production in the U.S., with some areas in the southern half of sugar maple's range becoming unsuitable for production.”

According to another study, 89% of producers have experienced the negative impacts of climate on maple syrup production.

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One of the scenes I wanted in my documentary was of the sugar house on a snowy winter day. That iconic shot of small-scale maple syrup production. But never in two years of filming was there enough snow.

It’s too late for the film, but during last Saturday’s minor snowstorm I returned to Sweet Sourland Farm and snapped some snow photos. For me this felt like finishing the job.

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Next screening: Join Charlize and myself at Stockton University for a special screening of Sugar House Yantra on January 20 at 4pm. (Details in the first comment.) Before the movie, learn how Stockton University is working to produce syrup in an even warmer climate by relying on red maple trees instead of sugar maples. Charlize has been one of the project's advisors.

Cheers,
Jared

03/01/2024

Coming January 20.

Stockton University will host a public tour of the school's maple syrup project at 4 p.m. Jan. 20.

18/04/2023

Now playing: DARK SACRED NIGHT. Happy International Dark Sky Week.

The award-winning documentary about light pollution - and why darkness matters. “Dark Sacred Night” is a special storytelling project of Princeton University...

17/02/2023

A short documentary about light pollution. Coming this spring.

More than 80 percent of the world’s population, and 99 percent of Americans and Europeans, now live under light polluted skies. Many people live and die with...

11/10/2022

One native plant species, an unlikely ecologist, a distinctive habitat. ROOTED explores local nature through the stories of wild plants...
..and is now available right here on Facebook!

30/09/2022

The Great Wharton State Forest Survey of 2022. Take it here: https://nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/wharton/

14/08/2022

Now Playing: A little film about bee balm. Link in the first comment.

22/03/2022

PINE MUD in Asbury Park. This Saturday at the Garden State Film Festival

PINE MUD is the story of the defense of the New Jersey Pine Barrens against illegal off-road vehicles.

In the vast Pinelands National Reserve of southern New Jersey, powerful vehicles trample protected sand dunes and drive circles through ancient ponds. Like in many wild places, “off-roading” has grown more popular here. Some of the off-roading activity is perfectly legal—provided it stays on established trails—but ignoring the rules is widespread.

As a gritty local conservationist works to protect habitat for threatened species, tensions flare with off-roading enthusiasts who fear their access to the forest will be restricted. Filmmaker Jared Flesher’s Pine Mud is the first feature documentary to explore the controversial and intensifying problem of off-road vehicle damage on public lands.

Catch PINE MUD at the 20th annual Garden State Film Festival, coming to Asbury Park March 24-27. The film will stream on Saturday, March 26th at 11:45 AM.

Please use the Pinelands Preservation Alliance calendar for more details. The link to the calendar can be found here:
https://pinelandsalliance.org/event/pine-mud-film-screening-2/

17/03/2022

10-Year Anniversary Extra Special Screening of SOURLANDS. March 31, 7pm.

02/02/2022

What happens in front of a groundhog hole when you’re not looking?

Astrophysics Professor Gaspar Bakos discusses the latest installation in his wildlife monitoring project, Wild Cam. In an attempt to discover the inhabitant ...

27/01/2022

Pine Mud is screening live in Asbury Park. Saturday March 26.

17/01/2022

Today the Associated Press wrote about illegal off-road vehicles in the Pine Barrens:

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-environment-and-nature-forests-new-jersey-f0bd4013a84eb3e48f5c70c5ca5dfd8e

SHAMONG, N.J. (AP) — Advocates for New Jersey's ecologically sensitive Pinelands region say the state is not doing nearly enough to protect the fragile woodlands from damage caused by motorcycles and off-road vehicles.

29/10/2021

It's that time of year:

https://vimeo.com/142893399

Synopsis: Found deep within bat hibernacula in New Jersey is something terrifying…an invasive fungus that has killed 95% of little brown bats and 99% of northern…

07/10/2021

Welcome to the next episode of “Princeton Wildcam,” in which an astrophysicist puts a wildlife camera outside a groundhog hole:

https://youtu.be/mn4TKAnXcTk

Astrophysics Professor Gaspar Bakos discusses the latest installation in his wildlife monitoring project, Wild Cam. In an attempt to discover the inhabitant ...

01/10/2021

A cool and birdy program October 6 from our friends at Mercer County Library System

19/04/2021

Fresh off its premiere at the Princeton Environmental Film Festival, OBSERVATORY is now available to watch on YouTube. Don't be fooled by the giant telescope, this is really a nature film:

https://youtu.be/d4zJrXn0pLg

Hungarian-born astrophysicist Gaspar Bakos has helped discover more than 140 planets outside our solar system. He now lives with his family in Princeton, New...

16/04/2021

Tonight at 7pm: https://watch.eventive.org/peff/play/6064be6782d8bc00b5f847c2

14/04/2021

OBSERVATORY made the front page in Princeton today:

http://www.towntopics.com/wordpress/2021/04/14/documentary-on-local-wildlife-debuts-at-princeton-environmental-film-festival/

09/04/2021

The most beautiful of the spring ephemerals. Here but soon gone.
https://youtu.be/iO7iAXSdq3k

The most beautiful of the spring ephemerals.