Durham University’s Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience presents:
Reconnecting with our roots: building resilience through community projects
Over millennia, human civilisations have developed technologies and protocols to protect their communities and reduce the severity of risk from hazardous events. Often some of the most successful approaches to mitigating disaster are those that are small-scale and community-driven which also utilise local natural resources. These typically incorporate indigenous knowledge that has been passed down through generations. This session will showcase films that explore these community-led and nature-based mitigation and preparedness strategies to natural and human-made hazards.
Compounding crises
For this session of short films, we are thinking about compounding crises. What are the complex set of issues facing people, communities and societies? What is happening to make the problem worse by adding to the scale of hardship? Are these related to hazards, health, financial, conflict? How are people, communities and governments mitigating against, coping with and or adapting to these crises? What are the ways forward for people and societies?
Programme
16th February 2023: Reconnecting with our roots: building resilience through community projects
18:00-20.30: Free admission, Free Pizza
Don’t Touch Tariquia: The Resistance of Chiquiaca (29 mins) 2022
This film follows a group of women resisting the entry of an oil company into their communities inside a national park in southern Bolivia. A discussion will be held with the director, Penelope Anthias
Gaguney Landslide: a village on the edge (8 mins), a village on the move (8 mins) 2022
SaveTheHills has produced two documentaries on the impacts of a landslide on a village in Sikkim, India. The landslide has resulted in the loss of land and livelihoods
High Water, Common Ground (6 mins) 2019
This film, by TheTopOfTheTree, explores some of the most innovative methods of flood risk management in the UK
The Monk, the Engineer, and the Artificial Glacier (11 mins) 2015
Through the Ice Stupa Artificial Glacier Project, Ladakh, northeast India, attempts to solve its water crisis by melting glaciers
Behind the Tree (10 mins) 2019
Written and filmed by youth film makers from Malawi, this film portrays the many direct and indirect difficulties of addressing flood risk in Malawi and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. A discussion will be held with Dr Bob Alexander (Executive Producer) after the film.
Friday 17th February: Changing landscape and lives: Youth perspectives from Mexico, UK, and Ukraine
18.00-20.30: Free admission, Free Pizza
Kil Nche Ndutsa // Time and the Seashell (13 mins) 2020 Mexico
A young indigenous boy imagines his future while listening to the sounds of a seashell
Insecure: An exploration of coastal erosion with Withernsea High School (9 mins) 2021 UK
Films by Ukrainian teenagers:
Flash (7 mins) 2019
Virus “a (11 mins) 2018
Planet of Silence (13 mins) 2021
My Day During War 2022 Ukraine
A collection of documentary short films by Ukrainian 14-16 year olds in 2022. Anna living in Sweden (6 mins), Dasha living in Portugal (5 mins), Andriy living in Ukraine (6 mins), Evdokiya living in Spain (5 mins), and Anastasiya living in Ukraine (6 mins)