october, 2022
Event Details
The Mekong River ecosystem is on the verge of irreversible collapse due to the accumulative effects of climate change and increased numbers of upstream dams
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Event Details
The Mekong River ecosystem is on the verge of irreversible collapse due to the accumulative effects of climate change and increased numbers of upstream dams as well as other human-made activities such as deforestation, sand mining, extensive irrigation for agriculture, and wetland conversion.
To accompany our ongoing Meta House exhibition we screen three documentaries from Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos with a total length of 70 minutes in English language versions.
Free Entrance!
Chum Sophea’s short-docu MY RIVER, MY FISH, MY LIFE won 3rd prize at SEADocs 2011, a regional science film
festival in Bangkok. His short film “My River, My Fish, My Life” deals with the
pollution of the Mekong and its impact on Cambodian fishermen.
festival in Bangkok. His short film “My River, My Fish, My Life” deals with the
pollution of the Mekong and its impact on Cambodian fishermen.
Douglas Varchol’s docu MEKONG: VIETNAM – THE DELTA follows the efforts of students and scientists from the delta’s Can Tho University as they develop a resilience strategy for the challenges facing the Mekong delta over the next hundred years, upstream changes through dam building and water usage could have serious consequences on downstream environments.
Rivers contribute to transport, tourism, hydropower and resources including fish and freshwater. Yet excessive drought, dam-building and other development can ruin rivers. That is happening to the Mekong River, which flows from Tibet to the South China Sea. KILLING THE MEKONG DAM BY DAM by filmmaker and journalist Tom Fawthrop explores this topic in Laos.
Time
(Tuesday) 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
