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MIDWAY
The MIDWAY media 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.
We frame our story in the vividly gorgeous language of state-of-the-art high-definition digital cinematography, surrounded by millions of live birds in one of the world’s most beautiful natural sanctuaries. The viewer will experience stunning juxtapositions of beauty and horror, destruction and renewal, grief and joy, birth and death, coming out the other side with their heart broken open and their worldview shifted. Stepping outside the stylistic templates of traditional environmental or documentary films, MIDWAY will take viewers on a guided tour into the depths of their own spirits, delivering a profound message of reverence and love that is already reaching an audience of tens of millions of people around the world.
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5 Comments
Por favor… reflexionemos… que no podemos ser conscientes que estamos terminando con nuestro planeta, agrediendo a otros seres vivos , al parecer tenemos una pulsión tanática…nos autodestruímos cuando no podemos ser agradecidos con la grandiosidad que tenemos,como naturaleza, unos con otros nos lastimamos… no importa la especie pero si es más pequeña en la cadena evolutiva , nos ensañamos…así nos eliminamos…Hagamos un alto y seamos conscientes de ser humanos para los humanos…
We will make change’s in this world. I will pick up every single trash i see on the street’s. So i can save life’s of this animal’s that have died cause of the trash that is in the pacific ocean.
Hi I am Aourasha, from Sri Lanka. I designed these two webs. related to the envionment Actually I loved to environment. I saw these birds video. so sad. we have to protect our earth environment, fauna and flora. This image is very attractive. I love this image. I wish u all the best
Regards
Aourasha
Una foto espectacular, un mar hermoso; pero, ¿qué están haciendo los organismos internacionales, las ONG ambientales? ¿Cómo es posible que se distribuya al mundo un acto de barbarie ecológica tan grande como el que allí ocurre? El video que circula en la red es verdaderamente aterrador. Por unos pesos han dañado un ecosistema importantísimo y hermoso y por esa ambición desmedida, se acaba con especies nativas y foráneas a la vista gorda de todos y nadie hace nada para descontaminar las aguas y preservar las especies de fauna y flora. Allí sí que podrían conseguir el dinero que tanto llaman: Con un sitio limpio y las aves VIVIENDO y volando hermosamente, no muriendo atoradas con un pedazo de plástico que el hombre en su afán indolente ha arrojado.
I lived on Midway 1971-1972 (18mo) with the USNavy. While there we observed but did not disturb the Albatross though they were there only to breed and raise their chicks (7mo/yr). Then they would fly off to the other end of the Pacific.
This new garbage (plastics) polution issue must stop. We never saw that 40yrs ago. I feel it is coming from Asia since the currents flow from that direction. The wildlife are suffering severely. Who would have known plastics would do this?
Dave S