LIAS Film Series: "The Bamboo Bridge"
04. Jun
In the LIAS film series in cooperation with the SCALA arthouse cinema, international films on cultural and socially critical topics are accompanied by introductions and discussions every month.
Date: Wednesday, 4th of June 2025, 7:30 pm
Location: SCALA Arthouse Cinema | Apothekenstr. 17 | 21335 Lüneburg
With an Introduction by LIAS Senior Fellow Katherine Gibson.
The Bamboo Bridge across the Mekong River in Cambodia was an ephemeral infrastructure that lived with the flood and drew on a diverse array of economic and ecological practices of interdependence. Spanning 1.5 kms between Koh Paen Island and Kampung Chan, for decades this bridge was built every year as the river waters fell and then dismantled and stored as the flood waters rose. In 2017 the crew filmed the last year of its life while a concrete bridge was constructed down river as part of China’s Belt and Road initiative. The film draws attention to the more-than-human communities that were nourished and maintained by this social-ecological-technological infrastructure. It also presents the bridge as an important site of caring and commoning where habitats converge.
Free admission.
2019 | Juan Francisco Salazar | Australia
Khmer original with English subtitles
