"Bush Mechanics" investigates technology and indigeneity

Bush Mechanics, another installment in the film series "Movies Even an Engineer Would Love" (PDF Flyer), will be screened on Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 7-9pm, at the Spurlock Museum. Details:

What do you do when your car breaks down in the Australian outback? Bush Mechanics celebrates automotive ingenuity among the indigenous peoples of Yuendumu, Australia. Produced by an Aboriginal media collective in the Western Desert, it includes lessons such as how to make a clutch out of wood and how to use the windshield wiper reservoir as a fuel pump.

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