Friday, March 8, 2019 - 15:00
Female perspectives on climate and social justice
Screening of Document the Impact and GRIT
Location & Time: Berliner Union Film - 15:00
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Event Information
As humankind in the global north has prioritized capitalism and high productivity for far too long, the effects of our consumption and greed are having devastating effects on populations in many parts of the world. This program is dedicated to climate and social justice. In the short film Document the Impact we meet four pastoralist women in northern Tanzania who explore the crisis of climate change through photography. In Grit, bear witness to Dian’s transformation into a politically active teenager as she questions the role of corporate power and money in the institution of democracy itself.
Films:
Female pastoralists in northern Tanzania document the impact of climate change through participatory photography. This short documentary brings up the extremely urgent topic of climate change and the devastating effects of people who live in areas where clean water supply is constant. It is an intimate portrait of four women who open their lives to viewers by presenting and describing their images of drought and its consequences in their communities.
When Dian was 6 years old, she heard a deep rumble and turned to see a tsunami of mud barreling towards her village. She remembers her mother scooping her up to save her from the boiling mud. Her neighbors ran for their lives. Sixteen villages, including Dian’s, were wiped away. A decade later, nearly 60,000 people have been displaced from what was once a thriving industrial and residential area in East Java, located just 20 kilometers from Indonesia’s second largest city. Dozens of factories, schools and mosques are submerged 60 feet under a moonscape of cracked mud.
The majority of international scientists believe that Lapindo, a multinational company that was drilling for natural gas in 2006, accidentally struck an underground mud volcano and unleashed a violent flow of hot sludge from the earth’s depths. Ten years later, despite initial assurances to do so, Lapindo has not provided 80% of its promised reparations to the hundreds of victims of who lost everything in the mud explosion.
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