(FRAGMENT OF THE) EMPIRE KANAL

2018

HD video, 20 minutes, 2018. English.

When the City of Graz, Austria attempted to address the issue of untreated wastewater entering the Mur River, by building a water storage unit, the Zentraler Speichererkanal, protest erupted in opposition. Various factions took aim at how the project was funded, the environmental costs and the form of the solution. Capturing the contention of infrastructure projects, (Fragment) of the Empire Kanal presents portraits of people who adamantly disagree about the best ecological solution to wastewater.