[Frameworks] Films on Gold and Gold Mining

[alena williams]

dear jana,

this project might be of interest. if you need contact information, feel
free to reach me off-list.

with best wishes,
alena


*Unearthing Disaster I* (2013)
(first shown as Corridor X: Postscript to an Unfinished Journey)
2-channel HD video, 36min.
Angela Anderson and Angela Melitopoulos
About the struggle against the construction of an open-pit gold mine in
Northeastern Greece. Commissioned by the Berliner Herbstsalon (curated by
Shermin Langhoff), Gorki Theater, Berlin.

*Unearthing Disaster II* (2015)
Single channel 4K video, 26min.
Angela Anderson and Angela Melitopoulos
On the disastrous environmental impacts of the construction of an open-pit
gold mine in Northeastern Greece. Commissioned by the 5 Thessaloniki
Biennale: Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the
Will, curated by Katerina Gregos (June 23 –Sep 30, 2015).

http://www.apubliclibrary.org/event/unearthing-disaster/

"Unearthing disaster" is a visual research project by Angela Anderson and
Angela Melitopoulos focusing on the large-scale open pit gold mine in the
forest of Skouries in Halkidiki, Northern Greece, and the ongoing
anti-mining protest movements in the area, which together form a very
complex example of contemporary “disaster capitalism.”

Since 2011, when a Canadian mining company received state approval for the
construction of the open-pit mine and processing plant, as part of Greece’s
“fast track” investment program enabling the accelerated and barrier-free
licensing of large scale private investment projects, local communities
have intensified their struggle against what they see as an ecological
catastrophe and a threat to their own existence.

Unearthing disaster is not only about the dirty business of gold mining,
but implies a catastrophe on different levels: the loss of memory, the loss
of expression, and the violent calculated and destructive speed of a
disaster capitalism that literally pulverizes the natural and cultural
environment.

This unearthing disaster is put into motion as monstrous shareholder profit
machinery; an assault that turns a beautiful and pristine environment into
something that can no longer be recognized as an environment. Not
recognizing the land you live in means not knowing how to relate to it. So
in Halkidiki the struggle against the destruction of the territory because
of goldmining is a struggle for expression. This destruction of landscape
of old forest, pristine sea and beautiful aquifers is first of all a
destruction of memory, and the implementation of politics that aims to
disable our capacity to act.

Gold mining is not only a vicious consequence of the debt crisis but a form
of anti-production. It destroys more than it produces. It takes place for
the price of a dubious idea: that of gold——a not very useful element of the
earth in which we store financial value and add the idea of infinity or
divinity.

The screening of "Unearthing disaster" (2013) will be followed by a
discussion with Angela Anderson and Angela Melitopoulos mapping out the
complex situation in Skouries and the various forces, ethics, histories,
and materialities that are currently at work there. Anderson and
Melitopoulos are currently working on a second film about Skouries, which
will be screened at the Thessaloniki Biennale this summer.

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http://www.idlenomore.ca/urgent_call_for_solidarity_stop_gold_mining
https://soshalkidiki.wordpress.com/
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http://antigoldgr.org/en/
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http://epitropiagonapanagias.blogspot.gr/2015/03/open-pit-11-m-2015.html

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Jana Debus <info at janadebus.com> wrote:

> Dear Frameworkers,
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> please help me compile a list of
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> Gold Fever. Prospectors. Forty-niners.
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> Thank you all.
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