Author: Esme Andrews

The release of our first 2025 issue on 22 April, coordinated by our new editorial team, coincides with Earth Day 2025. This issue presents five films that take a close look at natural resource extraction worldwide, including gold, copper, oil, sand and…

As a seemingly cheap, abundant and easy to extract resource, sand is a key ingredient in many construction materials, most notably concrete. Minding Sand follows the sand mining industry along the beaches of Sierra Leone and the struggles associated wi…

Gold is the cornerstone of Suriname’s economy, attracting many Brazilian migrants who seek to improve their lives. Building on a friendship spanning over fifteen years, miner Pretinha and anthropologist Marjo embarked on a collaborative film project fo…

This film is about gold– a global commodity shaping local livelihoods and landscapes across the world. It is about the people who risk their lives in the narrow underground mines and about their struggles for a better future. It is a participatory proj…

Dragging Chains moves between observation and conversation as the apparent obscurity of Grenada’s Jab Jab masquerade is unraveled. Shot during the 2023 carnival season, the film immerses its viewers in a sensorial spectacle of oil, chains and rhythms, …

The mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands) has been entangled in controversy for over thirty years. The mountain is, at once, a sacred site for the indigenous people of Fuerteventura– who decorated it with hundreds of engravings–; a mining…

Like many island communities, residents of the Orkney Islands, Scotland are acutely aware of the urban-rural dynamic at play in our ever-globalised world. This character-driven film comes as a contribution to an ongoing conversation – one concerning he…

Nets are all around us. They materialize such principles as connecting, filtering and patterning. Which is why we might want to have a closer look at what people do with them — and what they do with people. In Bahia, Brazil, I travelled to places wher…

Between film projects and following the birth of his daughter, a Canadian in Paris (Matthew Lancit) must confront his slacker lifestyle and decide if there is something in it worth passing on to the next generation, or if he is better off getting a job…