Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway

The film ‘Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld’, 2016 (27 min.) by Lise Autogena (DK) and Joshua Portway (UK) portrays the region of Kvanefjeld in southern Greenland – site of the richest rare earth mineral resources in the world, and home to one of the world’s largest deposits of uranium.

The film explores a Greenland divided on the issue of uranium mining as a means of gaining autonomy, social progress and financial independence. Traditional ways of living from the land and the sea do not sit easily with the Greenland’s government’s plans for big investments by foreign mining companies.

The film portrays the difficult decisions and trade-offs faced by a culture seeking to escape a colonial past and define its own identity in a globalised world.

The film will be introduced by a paper by the artists.