e-flux presents Ecology After Nature: Industries, Communities, and Environmental Memory
Fordlandia Malaise
Susana de Sousa Dias
2019
40 Minutes
Portugal
Date
September 13–26, 2020
Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of Susana de Sousa Dias’ Fordlandia Malaise (2019), on view from Sunday, September 13 through Saturday, September 26, 2020.
Fordlandia Malaise is a film about the memory and present of Fordlandia, a company town founded by Henry Ford in the Amazon rainforest in 1928. Ford’s aim had been to break the British rubber monopoly and produce the material in Brazil for his car factories in the United States. Today, the remains of construction testify to the scale of the failure of this neocolonialist endeavor that lasted less than a decade.
Fordlandia Malaise is presented here as one of four films in Part Three | Decolonizing the Landscape: From Invisible to Visible, the third of six programs in the online film and discussion series Ecology After Nature: Industries, Communities, and Environmental Memory programmed by Lukas Brasiskis for e-flux Video & Film.
Ecology After Nature runs from August 14 through November 8, 2020. The films in Part Three will screen for two weeks, and subsequent parts will follow bi-weekly, with new films screened every other Sunday.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
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