Directed by Graeme Duane. With Rupert Graves. The southern coast of Africa features an array of battlefields as diverse as the predators who reign over them. In this concentrated mix of environments,…
A life-affirming documentary that celebrates the remarkable life of Ella Blumenthal. At her 98th birthday celebrations she opens up to close friends and family about her story of survival during the Holocaust, in a way she has never done before. Her recollections, depicted through dynamic 2D animation, include tales of three concentration camps, and of narrowly escaping death i...
The Zama Zama Project is an experimental documentation of ruinous postindustrial mining life in southern Africa. It is also an act of witnessing. The men and women of The Zama Zama Project are the forgotten, the ghosts in the machine of modern extractivism, the scavengers of its extravagant waste. They are also the authors of the stories told to Rosalind Morris, and form the co...
Antarctica - Journey into the White Desert A vast white wilderness that stretches across the south of our planet; a giant natural laboratory that has long occupied the human psyche. Antarctica is a continent of remote natural wonder. For brief moments each year this hauntingly beautiful landscape opens up, beckoning scientists and explorers from around the world to investigate ...
Women’s bodies are always at risk. An autopsy report describes the physical impact on the body that results in death but hides the structural and recurrent violence on women’s bodies that leads to femicide. Through archival film footage, animation and spoken word poetry an experience of structural violence against women is exposed.
在2014年,动物星球频道对50000观众进行了一项关于最爱动物的调查,其中老虎位列之首。其后有海豚、狗、马、象等动物。
与其他动物不同的是,虎繁育和养殖业急速发展了起来,并带动了旅游、娱乐、贸易、非法贸易产业。虎展示和表演在动物园和马戏团成为了娱乐亮点,虎制品(包括虎骨酒、虎皮、虎鞭、虎牙、虎骨等)在野生动物市场泛滥了起来。濒危的老虎成为了人们娱乐、彰显地位的消费品,而不是要去拯救的濒临消失的野生动物。无数机构和单位都打着科研和保护的名义在繁育老虎,却没有实际工作从产业链中产生。虎贸易链中的非法成分以及对市场的保护让这一产业像是黑手党Manfia的存在。
「当人们扔掉的食物比吃掉的还多,我们正对地球进行无声的施暴。」——《浪费:全球粮食危机解密》,史都华(Tristram Stuart)
根据联合国粮食及农业组织统计,全球一年丢弃食物的总重量高达十三亿吨,佔粮食供应给消费者数量的三分之一,同时,却有3600万人死于飢饿,浪费掉的食物足足是飢饿人口所需粮食的四倍。肥美完熟的有机柠檬,却因为太大而被超市拒收,导致被抛弃的命运;田裡三分之ㄧ新鲜现採的香蕉,因为外表稍微黑斑,而被压碎堆肥。现代食物生产体系从产地开始,到储运、零售、餐厅等等环节,都不断在製造食物浪费。
GAMBLING ON EXTINCTION is a powerful documentary that takes you from the killing fields in Kenya and South Africa to the trading hubs of Vietnam and China with undercover investigators, rangers, ex-poachers, conservationists and buyers. Director Jakob Kneser exposes the lethal mechanisms of the global trade, the terrorist connection, explains who the customers are, what generat...