+ Give Me A Riddle
Director:Schickele, David
Production Co:Waldsong Productions
Running Time:Feature. 68 minutes
Sound:sound - DTS-HD Master Audio
Color:b/w
Country:USA, Nigeria
Year:1966
Language:English
Genre:Drama
Notes:Nigeria became an independent country in 1960. In 1967 it was torn apart by civil war. Between these two events Nigeria enjoyed a kind of golden age, full of cultural ferment and cross-tribal fertilization. Every kid out of the village was writing the great Nigerian novel. A spirit of great hope prevailed through the land. Give Me A Riddle is about this golden age, seen through the eyes of ex-Peace Corps volunteer returning to his host country a couple of years after his Peace Corps service as a teacher at the University of Nigeria. The film follows Roger as he looks up his old student friends, travels with them to their homes, talks with them about their lives and the life of their country. Shot in 1966, the film is a time capsule of a Nigeria and the Peace Corps both in the rambunctious bloom of youth.
+ Tuscarora
Director:Schickele, David
Production Co:Waldsong Productions
Running Time:Short. 59 minutes
Sound:sound - dolby digital stereo
Color:color
Country:USA
Year:1992
Language:English
Genre:Documentary
Notes:Dennis and Julie Parks left the eastern seaboard in the early 1960’s, settling in the former mining boomtown of Tuscarora, Nevada, population twelve. They spent the next twenty-five years operating and expanding their pottery school, raising a family and running a studio. A mining company, motivated by high gold prices, began a large open pit gold mining operation just outside of town in 1989. Nevada, encouraging mining, writes its laws to favor that industry’s interests over all others. The pit grew ever larger, and the town found its very existence threatened. Spurning buyout offers from the mining company, the Parkses and the other residents decided to stay and fight the near-certain destruction of Tuscarora. As the video chronicles the ongoing saga, we learn much about the Parkses, their school, Dennis’ clay work and life in the wide open west.