Deep Weather

“Deep Weather” (2013)

Director: Ursula Biemann

Country: Switzerland

Run time: 9 minutes

Language: Multiple (English subtitles)

Oil and water are the undercurrents of all narrations as they activate profound change in the planetary ecology. This film, part of the “Carbon Geologies” series, draws a connection between the relentless reach for fossil resources that will continue its toxic impact on the climate, and the consequences this has for broad indigenous populations in remote parts of the world. Melting Himalayan ice fields, rising sea levels and extreme weather events increasingly define the amphibian lifestyle imposed on the Bangladeshi population. “Deep Weather” documents the gigantic effort to build protective mud embankments. These are the measures taken by populations who progressively have to live on water when large parts of Bangla will be submerged and water is declared the territory of citizenship.

friDAY, APRIL 12. 1:00 PM (ballroom b)

Thanks to Ursula Biemann Studio