Taste of the Land (OmeU)

In the organizer's words:

Director: Adam Loften, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee | USA 2024 | 70 min | DCP | original version with English subtitles | with Kalyanee Mam

In the Khmer language, the root word for "nature" and "land" is cheate, which means "taste": to really understand the essence of the land, you have to experience it with all your senses. Since fleeing Cambodia with her family during the Khmer Rouge regime - a genocide that destroyed an entire culture and drove millions of people from their homeland - award-winning documentary filmmaker Kalyanee Mam has spent much of her life searching for a deep connection to a place. This film follows her into the landscapes of her homeland, transformed by deforestation, industrialization, urbanization and development, where she has spent years lovingly documenting the disappearing, relational ways of life contained within them. By getting to know these places not only through the lens of her camera, but also through the intimate relationships she builds with the landscapes and people whose stories she tells, Kalyanee evokes an ancestral memory of the flavor of the land that lies within.

This screening takes place as part of the workshop "Mini Composter and Soil Quality", organized by the Living Library Team and the Bio Design Lab of the HfG, in collaboration with the ZKM. The two events complement each other and show how close our relationship with soil is and what role it plays in the global ecosystem.

The Bio Design Lab is a laboratory for sustainable material and design research at the HfG, where the Living Library project is located as a transdisciplinary exploration of materials and circular design. The workshop "Mini Composter and Soil Quality" focuses on soil and its important role in the ecosystem and questions how humans can also make a contribution. It explores ways to maintain healthy soil through sustainable and innovative design practices. The workshop teaches how to build a worm composter and discover its nutrient-rich soil as an effective plant fertilizer. As part of the ongoing research for the Living Library project, the workshop will also look at local soil structures and their nutrient composition. The ultimate goal is for participants to learn how to reuse the soil compost as a sustainable plant fertilizer.

Free admission | donation requested

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Price information:

Free admission | Donation requested