COMMON HERITAGE

Dir. Emma Critchley Prod. Elena Hill 2019 25 min. UK

An urgent response to the gold rush of deep-sea mining, Common Heritage reveals how reverberating layers of industrialisation have shaped our relationship with our environment.

Highlighting the fantasies we construct around exploration, the film reveals how these romanticized stages are in fact frontiers of conquest, annexed for the geopolitical appropriation of territory and mineral resources.

• AESTHETICA Short Film Festival 2019

• RIFA Research in Film Award 2020