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The man with the binoculars is Tim Shields, a conservation biologist whose mission concerns an entirely different animal, the desert tortoise. It’s estimated that the reptiles have roamed the area in and around the Mojave for more than fifteen million years, though within the past century their existence has been threatened by climate change, habitat loss, and a peculiar import that arrived with human encroachment: ravens. “There’s a fairly simple mathematical relationship.
Disillusioned with his life, Dr. John Kitchin abandons his career as a neurologist and moves to Pacific Beach. There, he undergoes a radical transformation into SLOMO, trading his lab coat for a pair of rollerblades and his IRA for a taste of divinity.
Slomo came into my life at an opportune moment. Having just rolled into my 30s, I was looking for both a film subject and some wisdom on how to approach the encroaching "middle third" of my life - the years when youthful idealism is so often blunted by adult responsibilities. Around this time, during a business trip to San Diego, my father had a chance meeting on the Pacific Beach boardwalk with John Kitchin, an old medical school classmate.
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