Politics of Ecology: Earth Day 2025
As Earth Day arrives, we’ve curated a pertinent eco-trio of two new acquisitions (Tamo Campos’ THE KLABONA KEEPERS and Cyrus Sutton’s ISLAND EARTH) and one featured classic (Keri Pickett’s FIRST DAUGHTER AND THE BLACK SNAKE). Each of these titles situates environmental politics in a framework connected to settler-colonial histories. In these films, the genocide of Indigenous populations goes hand-in-hand with the destruction of natural ecosystems, critiquing how corporate agriculture pollutes or bulldozes everything in its wake.
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1 itemThe Klabona Keepers
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Directed by Tamo Campos & Jasper Snow Rosen • 2022 • Canada • 69’
The Klabona Keepers is an intimate portrait of the dynamic Indigenous community that succeeded in protecting the remote Sacred Headwaters, known as the Klabona, in northwest British Columbia from industrial activities. Spanning 15...
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1 itemIsland Earth
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Directed by Cyrus Sutton • 2016 • USA • 61’
A rich and complex tale of a young indigenous scientist’s journey through the corn fields of GMO companies and loi patches of traditional Hawaiian elders reveals modern truths and ancient values that can save our food future.
To feed all the humans on...