Ballast is a 2008 American drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by Lance Hammer. It competed in the Dramatic category at the 2008 Sundance...

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...

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...

Documentary film 2008 Sundance Film Festival Excellence in Cinematography Award for Ballast 2009 Independent Spirit Awards Best Cinematography for Ballast (nomination)...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

Angst-filled poses and dark glasses, no hamstrung cliche but Denmark's only ballast between the debauched Claudius and the fascistic Fortinbras." Stormare...

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...

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...

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

superstructure of plot confusion and badly insufficient philosophical ballast, The Mouse that Roared is the kind of irrepressible topical satire whose...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) is a non-profit organization founded in 2006. It is based in New York City and is dedicated to supporting...

garage, attached to some of the original tethers and water jugs used as ballast. The chair was placed on loan to the San Diego Air and Space Museum, where...

on the Backrooms urban legend. The series debuted in 2022 with the short film "The Backrooms (Found Footage)" which has over 64 million views as of January...

2018. Retrieved February 18, 2017. Goldstein, Gregg (October 20, 2008). "Ballast tops Gotham indie award noms". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the...

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):...

shortcut, and they lie in wait there. When Tom appears with his truck full of ballast, Red starts sideswiping him, forcing him off the road and onto the edge...

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...