Forecast:
Disruption
Roz Mortimer, Wonderdog Productions,
London;
Dr Theo Colborn, World Wildlife Fund, USA
Research and Development Award: £15 000
Film-maker Roz Mortimer will work with Dr Theo Colborn and a diverse group
of scientists to examine the global effects of hormone disrupting chemicals
on our fertility and gender development.
We are so used to living with the convenience of modern products, but
what if the plastics and cosmetics we use everyday are disrupting our
hormones and causing fewer boys to be born, sperm counts to drop, intersex
conditions to increase and puberty as early as two years old?
Scientists have discovered that even remote places on the planet that
we think of as being untouched by man are heavily contaminated. Places
as far away from industry as the Arctic wilderness where the blood and
breast milk of Inuit people are loaded with toxins and polar bears are
being born hermaphrodite. Should we be listening when the Inuit people
speak of being the canary in the mine?
This research phase will draw on studies from a variety of international
sources including toxicologists, environmentalists, human rights campaigners,
endocrinologists and reproductive biologists. The research will form the
framework for an experimental film, in which the film-maker will use innovative
techniques and symbolic visualization of the landscape to emphasize the
dramatic human, social and ethical consequences of this unforeseen phenomenon.
Image credit © Roz Mortimer 2003
Film stills www.wonder-dog.co.uk
Production
How
To Live
Projected
Worlds
Tomorrow Belongs to Me
The Fluent Heart
Research
and Development
Anatomy
and the Performance of Weight
Close
to the Wall
Ethereal
Bodies
Euthanasia and assisted suicide
Forecast:
Disruption
Karoshi
Marsyas: Running out of skin
New Chamber Opera
Punters: Auto-portraits of fairground thrill
Zero
Gravity