(Stray Dog) Hydrophobia - (How to Imagine a More-than-human Relationship to the Ocean Floor? )

(Stray Dog) Hydrophobia and African Union will be screened consecutively and followed by a Q&A with the Filmmaker

Film synopsis: Patty Chang and David Kelley’s four-channel video was primarily filmed at the International Seabed Authority’s (ISA) headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica and , at the London Natural History Museum and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in England. The video’s filmed sequences and 3-D animations hold together the multiple time scales of the deep sea: the millions of years it took for organic matter, such as shark teeth and whale bones, to become potato-sized nodules of rare minerals critical for the deep sea’s biodiversity; 150 years of modern oceanography, initiated by the 1872 expedition of the HMS Challenger which discovered the mineral trove in the Pacific Ocean; thirty years of the ISA’s legislative efforts to permit commercial mining along the ocean floor; and the immediate climate crisis.