The Unforeseen

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A documentary about the development around Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, and the environment's unexpected response to human interference.A documentary about the development around Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, and the environment's unexpected response to human interference.A documentary about the development around Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, and the environment's unexpected response to human interference.

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Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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(archive footage)

Bill Bunch

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Jim Bob Moffett

Self
(archive footage)

Cedar Stevens

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Nico Hauwert

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Chock Woodruff

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Neil Tuttrup

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Frank Cooksey

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(archive footage)

Dick Brown

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Robert Redford

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Marshall Kuykendall

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Raymond Slade

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Director
- Laura Dunn
Writer
- Wendell Berry
All cast & crew
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Trivia
Terrence Malick, a long time resident of Austin, originally conceived the idea for the film.

Goofs
A latter animation showing water lines becoming blood vessels has a noticeable shift. It appears a duplicate frame has been accidentally inserted.

Quotes
Gary Bradley: Nature in your life, very quickly becomes God. A God who gives great abundance at times... and takes everything away at times.
[on growing up on a farm]

Crazy credits
The film's credits play alongside a series of photographs. Contribution photographers are listed at the end of the sequence. Photos were from various Flickr accounts and many names are actually Flickr members' nicknames.

Connections
Features Frontline: The Great American Bailout (1991)

Soundtracks
Spiegel Im Spiegel
Written by Arvo Pärt
Performed by Vadim Gluzman abd Angela Yoffe
Courtesy of BIS Records

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10/10

"The Unforeseen" is worth seeing, a beautiful film that is poetic and mesmerizing and at the heart very sad, you feel a great loss watching this very personal film.

I just saw "The Unforeseen" yesterday in Los Angeles at the AFI film festival. It is worth seeing, not preachy but really makes you understand how developers have such different interests(money)than you and I do. What happened in Austin has happened everywhere and I think the best message from the film is that we cannot go back and change the damage done but it is clearly time to take a mature look going forward in the future at each of our responsibility and stewardship for the land and nature, we must find a balance. Laura Dunn made a beautiful film that is poetic and mesmerizing and at the heart very sad, you feel a great loss watching this very personal film.