2014 > USA/France/UK > Directed by Erin Espelie An experimental documentary about rare earth elements (the Lanthanides), black mirrors (from obsidian to iPads), and how technology is reshaping the way we record the present and replay the past. It is also a consideration of the unusual visual and aural properties of rare earth elements and the political and environmental costs of their mining. With voiceover text by WB Yeats, Rebecca Solnit, Virginia Woolf and others. This program is made possible in part with public funds from NYSCA's Electronic Media & Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by the ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes. More at lanthanideseries.com 1 hr 10 min