Intro: Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust

60 years ago, the French government decided to establish its space center in Kourou, French Guiana. 600 Guianese people were expropriated to allow France to realize its dream of space conquest. Combining field investigation and archival footage, Listen to the Beat of Our Images gives a voice to an invisibilized and silenced population.

Listen to the Beat of Our Images (Écoutez le battement de nos images)

60 years ago, the French government decided to establish its space center in Kourou, French Guiana. 600 Guianese people were expropriated to allow France to realize its dream of space conquest. Combining field investigation and archival footage, Listen to the Beat of Our Images gives a voice to an invisibilized and silenced population.

Manzanar, in the heart of the Owens Valley or Payahuunadü, "land of the flowing water" as it is called by the Paiute and Shoshone peoples, is now a desolute and dusty valley. But before the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power took control of the area in the 1900s to divert water to the city, it was a lush green valley with creeks, river and springs running through it. From the forced removal of indigenous people from this land, to the forced relocation of Japanese-Americans during WWII to this land, Manzanar has been the site of atrocities committed by the same government who forced the diversion of water away from this place. These threads are delicately strung together by the accounts of Native Americans, Japanese-American WWII incarcerees, and environmentalists who are now harnessing their history to save the land. It is an intergenerational and intersectional story that is relevant to all communities, and invites us to think about our relationship to water and where it comes from.

Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust

From the forced removal of indigenous people from this land, to the forced relocation of Japanese-Americans during WWII to this land, Manzanar has been the site of atrocities committed by the same government who forced the diversion of water away from this place.

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