MIDWAY : trailer : a film by Chris Jordan from Midway on Vimeo.
The MIDWAY film project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch. Returning to the island over several years, our team is witnessing the cycles of life and death of these birds as a multi-layered metaphor for our times. With photographer Chris Jordan as our guide, we walk through the fire of horror and grief, facing the immensity of this tragedy—and our own complicity—head on. And in this process, we find an unexpected route to a transformational experience of beauty, acceptance, and understanding.
This works perfectly with the Speaking and Reading exercise on page 118. When I did this video in class, after this page, we watched the video (I warned them in advance that it would be shocking) and got them to discuss the issue.
ReplyDeleteAfter that, I wrote the word "solution" on the board and asked the students to brainstorm how this issue could be solved, which alleviated the tension of seeing this and turned the lesson into a positive one.