Darwin's Nightmare
The dusky blue waters of Lake Victoria stretch lazily across the Tanzanian plains, but beneath the placid surface a massacre has taken place. In the 1960s the Nile perch, an enormous variant of the American variety, was experimentally introduced into the lake and has wiped out practically all other life. Disastrous for local communities, the situation is a bonanza for the multinational factories that process and ship tons of perch abroad. Thus does globalization feed its lucrative foreign markets while the locals starve to death. Hubert Sauper’s fascinating film explores this “un-natural disaster”—reckless economic develop-ment that cares little for local ecology and even less for those whose lives are affected. Austria/France/ Belgium, 2004, 115 min.
M-27b Sun March 27 at 3:45pm
W-28a Mon March 28 at 6pm
A Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
W Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center
M Museum of Modern Art