In the midst of acute eco-anxiety, can community-based filmmaking help young people imagine a different future?
in the northern state of Uttarakhand to Pashulok in the early 2000s, despite decades of protests from activists and local people against the dam. Like those in South Durban, the students I worked with in India also chose to focus on documenting the work of activists fighting for environmental justice in their communities.
In contrast, when I asked students to draw what they imagined their communities looked like 100 years ago, they tended to depict more peaceful settings of human beings and their natural surroundings.In this drawing by a student from India, people are fishing and swimming in the river rather than damming it.
We would begin by mastering the technical skill of filmmaking, and the students would then take the cameras home and keep them for several weeks to create films.Ganga the Life Giver “We could talk to our peers all the time, but the film gave us a chance to speak to the elders in our community,” one student told me.In South Africa, the young filmmakers also gravitated toward activist figures in their community. In, D’sa shows them an air quality measurement device and explains how his organization fights to protect the health of people in the community.
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