Netherlands, Romania
53’, 2015
DIRECTED BY
Ildikó Zonga Plájás
PRODUCED BY
Ildikó Zonga Plájás
SCRIPTWRITER
Ildikó Zonga Plájás
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Ildikó Zonga Plájás
EDITED BY
Ildikó Zonga Plájás
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The Danube Delta in Romania – the “Last European Sanctuary” – is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. While major efforts are made to protect biodiversity, the plight of local communities is largely overlooked. Social scientists claim that the traumatic nature of the swamp bears heavy on the villagers' lives. But is Nature really to blame? Swamp dialogues is based on extensive field-research about the discoursive creation of wilderness in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve. Through a careful ‘argument montage’ built entirely on cinematic language, the film entails an anthropological reflection on knowledge production in social sciences.