Possible landscapes

‘Possible Landscapes’ is a poignant exploration of intergenerational experiences of Caribbean environments shot over two seasons in Trinidad and Tobago. Across sugarcane fields, steep hillsides, on fishing boats and through dying coral reefs, the film presents intimate portraits of people in their daily lives and examines the impacts of colonial legacies, post-independence aspirations, and the evolving forces of
extractivism. A collaboration between a documentary filmmaker, Kannan Arunasalam and two professors, Tao DuFour (Architecture) a spatial theorist and Natalie Melas (Comparative Literature) a postcolonial comparatist, ‘Possible Landscapes’ is the outcome of the research project, “Possible Landscapes: Documenting Environmental Experience in Trinidad and Tobago,” which investigated methods of field research and representation, drawing on the visual and narrative resources of documentary film to foreground lived experience of landscapes and environments.

Film page: Possible Landscapes