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Changing Landscapes - Shorts Program

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5 films in package
Nuisance Bear
In a town famous for polar bear sightings, the focus shifts to what the bears see of us, revealing an obstacle course of tourist paparazzi and wildlife officers during the bears’ annual migration.
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Planktonium
Threatened by rising global temperatures, filmmaker Jan van Ijken brings the invisible, surreal world of microscopic plankton into glorious view.
Belle River
As the Morganza Spillway opens for the third time in its history, Belle River is an eerie observation of a community knee deep in the climate crisis.
Galb'Echaouf
Filmmaker Abdessamad El Montassir shifts his focus to Western Sahara’s territorially disputed desert landscape, to hear its first-hand account of how a night once pretended to be a day.
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Listen to the Beat of Our Images
When the French government relocated its space center to French Guiana 60 years ago, one community experiences urban development and removal on a galactic scale.
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This collection of short films offers visual commentary on the (changing) nature of land in connection to society. Observations begin in the polar bear capital of the world, then wade into a submerged forest on unceded territory. We plunge further on into the surreal world of microscopic plankton, only to resurface in a Cajun town staring into the mouth of a spillway. We shift from water to desert, attending to the sociopolitical landscape of the Western Sahara, before finally turning skywards, where urban renewal in one community occurs on a galactic scale. 


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Filmmaker Jan van IJken brings the invisible, surreal world of microscopic plankton into glorious view with Planktonium. A visual feast and an auditory treat, this is a tribute to the organisms that produce half of the Earth’s oxygen—a supply threatened by rising global temperatures. -DB

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    15 minutes
  • Country
    Netherlands
  • Premiere
    Canadian Premiere
  • Director
    Jan van IJken
  • Producer
    Jan van Ijken
  • Editor
    Jan van IJken, Metje Postma
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