Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens • USA • 2014
An ecosexual love story.
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle have returned to the former's home state of West Virginia. Mountain-top removal, a form of surface mining that destroys local peaks to get at veins of cheap coal below, has devastated the Appalachian mountains. Determined to stop this practice, eco-sexuals Stephens and Sprinkle preach their philosophy in which 'earth as mother' is transformed into 'earth as lover.'
An offbeat, heartfelt embrace of the natural world, Goodbye Gauley Mountain examines the productive intersection between protest and sexuality in one of America's most exploited landscapes.
Jerry Rothwell • Canada • 2015
Filmmaker Jerry Rothwell examines the early days of Greenpeace.
Rahul Jain • India • 2016
Located on the northwest coast of India, Gujarat is a region known for textile production. Inside an enormous factory, set to the constant buzz and whirr of machines, workers labor for 12 hour days in order to eke out a meager living and send money to their families ba...
Photographer Edward Burtynsky has won international accolades for his large-scale photographs of 'manufactured landscapes'—sites of industrial waste and ruin. In an ethically ambivalent fashion, his work seeks to find beauty in quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, and dams, sites of huma...
