Progetto

Panorama

This short documentary exposes the current mass deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon and the damages collateral to it. Engendered within a long history of economic interests deeply related to theagricultural and extractive businesses, which see Western countries as substantial beneficiaries of such a demand, deforestation is contrasting preservation rights. Infractions leave clear signs on the landscape, which satellites record and easily detect. Moreover, these clues are available to any civilian who has access to off-the-shelf software such as Google Maps or Google Earth and, therefore, experienceable unmediated. In this way, nature becomes a witness to its perpetrators. This documentary investigates how settler dynamics and fraudulent land appropriation manifest on the territory and what are the sociopolitical driver that makes this possible. It aims to bring attention not just to the natural loss and its consequent damage to the world climate but, above all, to its effect on smallcommunities and local tribes. The outcome was designed to display evidence in a way that could serve in a courthouse environment.

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