On Friday, October 8th, from 5-7pm PST via Zoom, we are fortunate to have Kalyanee Mam share and speak about her short film, Lost Worlds. The film shows how the dredging of sand in Cambodia feeds the foundations of Singapore’s development projects, while altering the social and ecological bases of survival for coastal communities in Cambodia.
The film screening will be followed by brief comments from Gonzalo Carrasco (Environmental Chemistry) and Kirk Lange (Human Geography), each of whom will share their knowledge and experience of land reclamation at their respective fieldsites in Singapore and Bali. The slow seminar will be a space to build on these contributions and enrich our thinking about the social, ecological, and environmental entanglements of land reclamation.
No reading preparation or prior knowledge of the topic or region is required for this event. Simply come and get to know SEACoast, what the process of a Slow Seminar conversation between different fields might look like, and learn with us about the complexities of environmental change in Southeast Asia.
Kalyanee Mam is an award-winning filmmaker whose work is focused on art and advocacy. Born in Battambang, Cambodia, during the Khmer Rouge regime, Kalyanee immigrated to the United States in 1981 with her family. Her debut documentary feature, A River Changes Course, won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Gate Award for Best Feature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Her other works include documentary shorts Lost World, Fight for Areng Valley, Between Earth & Sky and Cries of Our Ancestors. She has also worked as a cinematographer and associate producer on the 2011 Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job. She is currently working on a new feature documentary, The Fire and the Bird’s Nest
| Please RSVP for Zoom link by October 4th
