Ballast is a 2008 film directed by Lance Hammer. It competed in the Dramatic category at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the awards for...

exceptionally large loads Track ballast, the layer of crushed rock or gravel upon which railway track is laid Ballast (film), a 2008 film about the effect of one...

A ballast tank is a compartment within a boat, ship or other floating structure that holds water, which is used as ballast to provide hydrostatic stability...

Corrosion in Ballast Tanks is the deterioration process where the surface of a ballast tank progresses from microblistering, to loss of tank coating,...

and throw them in the ballast, locks the door, and begins to flood the compartment with ballast water. They discover the ballast contains the skeletal...

in the world." Feature films Television Music videos 2008 Sundance Film Festival Excellence in Cinematography Award for Ballast 2009 Independent Spirit...

Shark perceive disembodied voices and other eerie events. Working in a ballast tank, Ensign Douglas Odell questions Brice’s account that Winters fell...

review, Dennis Harvey of Variety called the film "A somewhat mixed bag, as the script doesn’t fully ballast the serious tenor, this is nonetheless a confidently...

the water rising rapidly, the group escapes through an air duct and some ballast tanks, although Elena hits her head underwater and drowns as a result....

"Theseus battles the Titans in a cheerfully idiotic mythological yarn ballasted by Tarsem's eyecatching image-making". Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood...

costly than incandescent lamps because, among other things, they require a ballast to regulate current through the lamp, but the initial cost is offset by...

insists he go full speed to save money, preventing Poseidon from taking on ballast. Reverend Frank Scott, a minister who believes "God helps those who help...

Trevor Lewis questioned the skill of the film's inexperienced cast, saying that they "lack the dramatic ballast to compensate for [Nolan's] erratic plot...

from the episode resembles Fred from the film. In the episode of the animated series Smeshariki – "BallAst", the main characters are swimming in a yellow...

making couplers with a ballast group such as a lipophilic group (oil-protected) and applying them in oil droplets to the film, or a hydrophilic group...

rails, causing the rails to spread and the engine to fall gently into the ballast without harming the hostages. No crane is available to re-rail the train...

The "strike" requires an electrical circuit with an igniter and a ballast. The ballast is wired in series with the lamp and performs two functions. First...

hopelessly mushy center, the surrounding performances lend the movie some ballast" and "The Shipping News is finally too efficient for its own good. Instead...

directed by Ryan Fleck 2007: Never Forever directed by Gina Kim 2008: Ballast directed by Lance Hammer 2009: Precious directed by Lee Daniels 2010 (tied):...

tallest sound stage, Stage 12. For the scene where the airship drops water ballast, a matte painting was used, and sugar was dropped through a hole in the...

inductive "ballast" in order to supply a nearly constant current to the lamp, rather than a constant voltage, thus assuring stable operation. The ballast is usually...

Ranger, describing a broken portlight (a porthole window) and water in the ballast control room, with discussions on how best to repair the damage. Ocean...

Brian Moore Bertram Johns as Robert Codman Ames Walter Hiers as Bertie Ballast Margaret Loomis as Nymph "A Kiss in Time (1921) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved...

International Film Festival commented on the performance of Go Ah-sung as "The edgy, restless central performance of her brings some dramatic ballast". Marshall...

rectangular component in the middle of the ballast circuit is a polyester film capacitor used for PFC. Snubber film capacitors RC snubbers, a simple RC circuit...

light). HMI bulbs (running with magnetic ballast) present an inherent problem of possibly producing light on film or video with a noticeable flicker. This...

oxygen. After over 16 hours, they are able to surface by blowing their ballast tanks, and limp back towards La Rochelle under cover of darkness. The crew...

Hunting Party, starring Richard Gere, Lake City, starring Sissy Spacek, Ballast, the critically acclaimed debut of director Lance Hammer, and My Sister's...

the dynamite hole, and confirm that the engine crates are filled with ballast stones and not engines. Higgins spots the pair’s underwater lights, then...

Rupert von Marwitz Jean Hersholt as Baron Van Leyden Ralph Forbes as Ballaster Violet Kemble Cooper as Baroness Van Leyden Sara Haden as Susie Richard...