Screening of Thirst for Justice by Leana Hosea and 65 by Fábio Erdos, part of The Shape of the Enviroment exhbition.
Join us on Saturday, October 1, at 7:00pm to watch two environmetally-themed films. The screening is free to attend and open to the public, with limited seating. A Q&A session with filmmaker Fábio Erdos will take place after the screening.
65 | Fábio Erdos | 2022 | 5 minutes
65 offers a glimpse of the most recent Greenpeace expedition into the Antarctic and its deep sea, revealing the abundant, and fragile, hidden underworld in the coldest and one of the most remote regions on the planet. Fábio Erdos is also a participant in The Shape of the Environment, with the dual-channel video installation near the entrance at Arts and Literature Laboratory.
Watch an excerpt from 65 here:
Thirst for Justice | Leana Hosea | 2022 | 58 minutes
Armed only with facts and their illnesses, extraordinary citizens take on industry and government, risking arrest to protect clean water. From Flint to the Navajo Nation, via Standing Rock, this is their story.
Thirst for Justice follows Janene Yazzie as she searches for the source of contamination in her son's school's water in Sanders, Arizona. She suspects drinking uranium-contaminated water from the 1979 Church Rock dam spill caused her ovarian cancer. When the epic movement for water justice ignites in Standing Rock, Janene is compelled to join. There she meets Flint water activist Nayyirah Shariff and their struggles converge. Janene travels to Flint, where she sees first hand the similarities between what's happening in this inner-city and the Navajo experience.
Watch an excerpt from Thirst for Justice here:
This film screening is a collaboration between the UW-Madison Extension Dane County and The Shape of the Environment exhibition, on view at the Arts + Literature Laboratory from Aug. 23 - Nov. 4, 2022. Curated by Lelia Byron, the exhibition includes work by Fábio Erdos, Patrizia Ferreira, Hong Huo, Hattie Lee, Lianne Milton, Richie Morales, Beth Racette, Nirmal Raja, Sparker, Roberto Torres Mata, Maria Amalia Wood, Derick Wycherly, and Rina Yoon.
