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What Remains

A series of artists’ short films that explore the effects of human and capitalist destruction of the natural world.

Rabz Lansiquot

Total running time 92 min

Films in this programme

Kasiterit
That Which is to Come is Just a Promise
Cloudberries
Antarctic Traces

Film 1

Kasiterit

An exploration of the materiality and significance of tin, technology and the labour dynamics of Indonesia’s Bangka island.

Dir Riar Rizaldi. Indonesia 2019. 18min

Film 2

That Which is to Come is Just a Promise

A single long shot explores the possibility of Tuvalu’s submergence under water, a transformation that scientists have predicted will happen in the next 30 years.

Dir Flatform. Italy-Netherlands-New Zealand 2019. 22min

Festival guests

This member of the filmmaking team is expected to attend the festival:

Flatform, director.

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Film 3

Cloudberries

Everyday lives carry on in a small fishing village in the Kola Peninsula of Arctic Russia during the hottest summer on record.

Dir Ruth Maclennan. UK-Russia 2019. 22min

Festival guests

This member of the filmmaking team is expected to attend the festival:

Ruth Maclennan, director.

See the full list of visiting festival guests. Please note that we can’t guarantee guest attendance at any particular screening.

Film 4

Antarctic Traces

Exploring parts of Antarctica through literary sources and the history of the whaling industry to illuminate the void left behind after human exploitation.

Dir Michaela Grill. Austria-Canada 2019. 30min