  Announcing the 18th annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film
Festivasl,   April 6-12, 2015   Environments inhabited by
animals, plants, organisms, minerals, fungi, bacteria.  
Terrains, waters, atmospheres defined by layers, relationships,
and complexities surrounding the human and the nonhuman.
Ecological systems offering sustenance and life. Territories
sculpted by the small and the local: havens, dwellings, abodes,
sites.  Habitus extends habitats: cultures anchored in bodies,
groups, nations, habits, skills, styles, tastes. Through
everyday life and historical memory, habitus spawns values and
expectations.  Habitats and Habitus: generative havens, dynamic
environments, sustaining locales.  But while habitat often
implies stability, sustenance, and a natural order, conflicts
and contradictions pervade actual habitats.  As competing
organisms and species vie for niches, a habitat’s appearance of
coherence can be illusory, disguising violence.  As habitats
evolve from internal dynamics and external challeng