You Think the Earth Is a Dead Thing

  • Tu crois que la terre est chose morte
Genre : Drama
Type : Documentary
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2019
Format : Feature
Running time : 75 (in minutes)

A quarter of Martinique's land is severely polluted. There is only one reason for this: the uncontrolled use, for several decades, of an extremely toxic pesticide, chlordecone, to treat banana plantations, the island's main economic resource.
How can polluted land be reclaimed? How to transcend colonial history? What future can we build when everything has been recovered: the legacy of slavery, family genealogies, natural resources, genius loci?
This film explores these questions with men and women, going to meet those who explore, rediscover, think about the power of resilience of plants and thus work towards a new future for their country.
Because this ultramarine territory is a microcosm, it is an observatory of the major environmental issues that we face everywhere.



AUTHOR(S)- DIRECTOR(S): Florence Lazar
IMAGE : Roland Edzard, Julien Loustau
SOUND : Térence Meunier, Dider Andréa, Josefina Rodriguez, Emmanuel Croset
ASSEMBLY : Julien Loustau
PRODUCTION / DIFFUSION : Sister Productions, Jeu de Paume, CNAP (Centre National des Arts Plastiques), ARTE France
ORGANIZATION(S) HOLDER(S) or DEPOSITARY(S): Sister Productions

A documentary by Florence Lazar is among the official selection of the IDFA festival taking place in Amsterdam from November 20 to December 1.

Parceiros

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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