Docu: Swamp Dialogues (EN)
— Dutch below —
Swamp Dialogues: Anthropological Documentary about social movement by the Donau
The Danube Delta in Romania – the ‘Last European Sanctuary’ – is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. While major efforts are made to protect biodiversity, the plight of local communities is largely overlooked. Social scientists claim that the traumatic nature of the swamp bears heavily on the villagers’ lives. But is Nature really to blame?
Swamp Dialogues is based on extensive field-research in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve. Through a ‘argument montage’ built entirely on cinematic language the film entails an anthropological reflection on knowledge production in social sciences.
About Filmmaker
Ildikó Zonga Plájás studied anthropology and cultural studies in Romania and Hungary, later graduating in Visual Ethnography at Leiden University, the Netherlands. After her studies she has been a guest lecturer at Leiden University, and is currently working on her new research project at the University of Amsterdam.
In this session we will show the documentary: Swamp Dialogues. Filmmaker Ildikó Plájás will attend the session to discuss the film afterwards.
