Estamira
This documentary is about Estamira, a 63 year-old woman suffering from schizophrenia who has lived and worked for decades in Jardin Gramacho, one of the largest landfills in the world.
This documentary is about Estamira, a 63 year-old woman suffering from schizophrenia who has lived and worked for decades in Jardin Gramacho, one of the largest landfills in the world.
The film documents Sandra Steingraber’s travels across North America, during which the ecologist and writer works toward breaking the silence over cancer and its environmental links.
This documentary approaches global warming with relation to the human and cultural dimension in several Pacific inslands.
Anthony Carrigan, Carson Fellow from January to June 2012, talks about his research concerning social disasters such as wars and ongoing chronic poverty that can develop from colonization.
Eagle Glassheim, Carson Fellow from February until April 2012, talks about his research project on the ethnic, social, and environmental transformation of Czechoslovakia’s Border Lands after 1945.
Anya Zilberstein, Carson Fellow from February 2012 until July 2012, talks about her project on prison gardens, especially the work of Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson), who designed Munich’s English Garden in the late eighteenth century.
Sigurd Bergmann, Carson Fellow from December 2011 until February 2012, talks about his research concerning religious worldviews and the perception of the environment.
Fiona Cameron, Carson Fellow from August 2011 until March 2012, talks about her research on ‘Museums, Education, and Climate Change’ at the intersections between science, technology and nature.
Marianna Dudley, Carson Fellow from October 2011 until March 2012, talks about the unusual experiences of researching militarized landscapes.
Sherry Johnson, Carson Fellow from January 2010 until July 2010, talks about her research on the history of disasters and climatology and the related environmental, social, and political changes.