“ ‘Lon Marum’: Film Screening & Discussion” (Environmental Film Festival at Yale)

The Environmental Film Festival at Yale (EFFY) and the People, Equity, and Environment Learning Community present: “Lon Marum,” a documentary film depicting the relationship between language, culture, place, music, tradition, and magic – in the context of life on an active volcano.

 

Please join us on Wednesday, November 20th, 6-8 pm in Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect St., for a film screening and discussion about culture, ways of knowing the world, and climate.

 

Lon Marum means “the path of the volcano.” When applied to the people of Emyotungan, it means the “people who live in the path of the volcano,” reflecting the profound relationship between the people and their physical environment. The film follows a local community leader and fieldworker for the Vanuatu Cultural Centre as he takes us on a journey. His community has some of the most complex kinship systems in the world and exists within a traditional social and economic system that functions much as it did thousands of years ago. As Western scientists have become more interested in the volcano, this film also explores the different ways of knowing presented by the local community and the modernist scientific fraternity.

 

This film is the story of life and how it expresses itself in the bosom of a volcano.

 

We are proud to host a conversation with the Co-Writer/Co-Director Soraya Hosni, a Yale World Fellow, and the moderator Alex Muñoz, McCluskey Fellow in Conservation, here at the Yale School of the Environment.