<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Oliver Ressler</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oliver@ressler.at">oliver@ressler.at</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 4:24 AM<br>Subject: [Newsletter] Leave It in the Ground at Tromsø International Film Festival (among others)<br>To: <a href="mailto:newsletter@ressler.at">newsletter@ressler.at</a><br><br><br>
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<b>Leave It in the Ground</b><br>
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A film by Oliver Ressler<br>
18 min., 2013<br>
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Screening at Tromsø International Film Festival 2015 (TIFF) in
Norway<br>
as part of the program <i>Beyond Horizons</i> at Verdensteateret in
Tromsø¸, followed by a debate at KulturHuset, Verkstedet, Tromsø.
Wednesday, 14 January 2015, 1 PM.<br>
Further details: <a href="http://tiff.no/program/2015/beyond-horizons" target="_blank">http://tiff.no/program/2015/beyond-horizons</a><br>
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Exhibitions of <i>Leave It in the Ground</i>:<br>
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"€œThe Plundering"€œ, <a href="http://www.lentos.at/html/en/2895.aspx" target="_blank">Lentos Kunstmuseum</a>,
Linz (A), ongoing till 01.02.2015 (solo exhibition O. Ressler)<br>
"œBeyond Horizons"€ , <a href="http://ateliernord.no/anx/beyond-horizons/?lang=en" target="_blank">Atelier
Nord ANX</a>, Oslo (N), 15.01. – 08.02.2015<br>
"€œWaterscapes: The Politics of Water"€ , Pohang City Museum of Art,
Pohang (KR), 15.01. – 29.03.2015<br>
"€œLeave it in the Ground"€ , <a href="http://www.nbk.org/en/ausstellungen/vorschau.html" target="_blank">NBK –
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein</a>, Berlin (D), 27.02. – 24.04.2015
(solo exhibition O. Ressler)<br>
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In recent years, countless extreme weather events clearly indicate
that climate change is not only a future phenomenon but is already
taking place. Some effects of global warming—€”desertification, more
frequent droughts, less frequent but more intense precipitation,
lower crop yields—€”inflame existing social conflicts. In the Global
South, climate change aggravates the crises of poverty, violence,
and unrest that result from the legacies of colonialism and
neoliberal capitalism. This vicious circle fuels humanitarian crises
and civil wars that amplify political, economic and environmental
disasters.<br>
Despite clear warnings, the ruling powers do not have a political
agenda with a serious strategy to reduce use of fossil fuels, the
main cause of global warming. A fossil-fuel fundamentalism seems to
dominate throughout the globe.<br>
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Recently, some of Norway'€™s politicians have advocated extracting
petroleum in one of the largest fish and aquatic life spawning
grounds on the planet, the sea encircling the Lofoten archipelago.
The deepwater drilling would have unpredictable effects on the fish
populations and some of the world'€™s cleanest waters. With the
idyllic landscapes of the Lofoten archipelago as its background, <i>Leave
It in the Ground</i> describes the climate crisis not as a
technical and scientific problem, but as a political problem. The
film discusses how ecological and humanitarian disasters caused
through global warming might topple old orders and open up
possibilities that could lead to long-term social and political
transformations, both positive and negative.<br>
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Further details and film excerpt:<br>
<a href="http://www.ressler.at/leave_it_in_the_ground/" target="_blank">http://www.ressler.at/leave_it_in_the_ground/</a><br>
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