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Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics
Sun
27
Sun 27 Oct 4:00 PM
Odeon Star Semaphore: Cinema 1
General Admission
All Ages
83 Mins | 2024 | Australian Premiere | Canada | Director: Ben Addelman, Ziya Tong | Documentary | Feature | Change Award | World DocumentaryWe are becoming plastic! Plastic microfibres are now in human placentas, in our brains and other organs.
A shockingly urgent documentary tackling the impact of plastic on our bodies and health. All plastic breaks down to become microplastics or plastic flakes which then drift in the air, float in bodies of water and mixes with the earth. Audiences are presented with the confronting proposition that humans and other species are becoming plastic, an invasion now beginning in placentas and invading organs and brain tissue.
Acclaimed author and science journalist Ziya Tong visits scientists from across the globe to get the measure of this invasion. Ziya also uses her own house and body to test for micro-plastics. Along with award-winning documentary and television director, Ben Addeleman, she makes an impassioned call to action to change our relationship to plastic.
Working the invasion metaphor, the film also uses wonderful archival footage, to trace the arrival of plastic into society, as a new miracle material. Its ubiquitousness now also fueling an expansion in demand for oil.
A shockingly urgent documentary tackling the impact of plastic on our bodies and health. All plastic breaks down to become microplastics or plastic flakes which then drift in the air, float in bodies of water and mixes with the earth. Audiences are presented with the confronting proposition that humans and other species are becoming plastic, an invasion now beginning in placentas and invading organs and brain tissue.
Acclaimed author and science journalist Ziya Tong visits scientists from across the globe to get the measure of this invasion. Ziya also uses her own house and body to test for micro-plastics. Along with award-winning documentary and television director, Ben Addeleman, she makes an impassioned call to action to change our relationship to plastic.
Working the invasion metaphor, the film also uses wonderful archival footage, to trace the arrival of plastic into society, as a new miracle material. Its ubiquitousness now also fueling an expansion in demand for oil.
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