Dreamland

6:30pm, Thursday 5^th January
Cinema Politica Newcastle
Culture Lab, Newcastle University

How much unspoiled nature should we preserve and what do we sacrifice for clean, renewable energy? Dreamland gradually turns into a disturbing picture of corporate power taking over small communities.

Dreamland is a film about a nation standing at cross-roads. Leading up to the country’s greatest economic crisis, the government started the largest mega project in the history of Iceland, to build the biggest dam in Europe to provide Alcoa cheap electricity for an aluminum smelter in the rugged east fjords of Iceland. Today Iceland is left holding a huge dept and an uncertain future.

In Dreamland a nation with abundance of choices gradually becomes caught up in a plan to turn its wilderness and beautiful nature into a massive system of hydro-electric and geothermal power plants with dams and reservoirs. Clean energy brings in polluting industry and international corporations. It’s the dark side of green energy.

Feature length documentary directed by Þorfinnur Guðnason and Andri Snær Magnason. Produced by Ground Control Productions. Based on a book by Andri Snær Magnason, Dreamland - a Self Help Manual for a Frightened Nation.

Screening followed by talk and discussion

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