Film screening followed by Q&A (English & Spanish). The Bamboo Bridge is a 60-minute documentary film made by CERN members Juan Francisco Salazar, Katherine Gibson and Isaac Lyne, along with a team of other wonderful people. It is about a 1.5km bridge across the Mekong River in Cambodia that, for decades, has been built every year as the flood waters recede and then dismantled and stored when the monsoon comes. This film captures a different infrastructural temporality, it shows a community economy in action, it helps us listen to bamboo and discern what it might be telling us about living in the Anthropocene. The film was made just before the bridge was dismantled for the last time. A new concrete bridge, part of China’s Belt and Road development strategy, now spans the Mekong joining the rural island of Koh Paen with the thriving city of Kampong Cham.

Language of the film is Khmer with English Subtitles. Discussion will be in English.