18th - 21st April
10:00 - 17:00
Watershed (W2)
Price: Free

Cancer Alley is an immersive poetry film hologram which features environmental destruction in 'Cancer Alley', Louisiana, the heart of the Global petrochemical industry. The project draws attention to the need for multinational companies to take more responsibility for their impact on the environment and the growing public awareness of how people’s lives are affected by extreme pollution. Cancer Alley is free, and is available to view at the Watershed 17-21st April on a continuous loop.

Cancer Alley has been created by poet Lucy English, US filmmakers Pamela Falkenberg and Jack Cochran, and Bristol based company Holotronica.

Pamela Falkenberg and Jack Cochran of Outlier Moving Pictures are US filmmakers who create short films for independent and experimental cinema. Their work has won many awards in short film and eco-film festivals. https://www.outliermovingpictures.com/home. The footage for Cancer Alley, in Lyra’s 2024 poetry film hologram exhibition, uses images which they have collated over the last two years documenting the pollution in this region.

This exhibition is captioned.

Part of #LyraFest
Free Event
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