The Four Corners Arts Center presents Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) on Wednesday, October 19th at 7:30 p.m.
The film interweaves the stories of four obsessive men, each driven to create eccentric worlds of their dreams, all involving animals: the late George Mendonça, (of Green Animals) a topiary gardener who devoted a lifetime to painstakingly shaping bears and giraffes out of hedges and trees; Dave Hoover, a lion tamer who idolizes the late Clyde Beatty, and who shares his theories on the mind of wild animals; Ray Mendez, who is fascinated with hairless mole-rats, tinybuck-toothed mammals who behave like insects; and Rodney Brooks, an M.I.T. scientist who has designed complex, autonomous robots that can crawl like bugs without specific instructions from a human controller.
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