Energy Island

Energy Island

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2017

Runtime

0h 30m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Energy Island

Production Companies

Just A Moment

Director

Emilija Škarnulytė

Description

Energy Island invites viewers for an immersive sensorial trip into the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania, now undergoing a decommissioning process. The images of contaminated ruins transform in the fire, light and shadow; the destruction of the industrial space consistently reveals how Cold War energy structures impact recent geopolitical processes and leave planetary threats over long periods of time. The project takes a geological approach – it reads things that compose this flat landscape as a stack of stratigraphic layers. The man­made space is understood as a sedimentary process and the infrastructures, as well as the mineral resources, are assessed as the key parameters defining a development of the project.