The Bamboo Bridge

The Bamboo Bridge is a 60-minute documentary film directed by Juan Francisco Salazar, produced by Katherine Gibson and Pat Fiske.

It follows the last building of a 1.5 kilometre bridge across the Mekong River in Cambodia.

The film is a meditation on ephemeral infrastructure, on human-non-human interactions, on community economy relationships and resilience.

It presents a way of living that is under threat as the Belt and Road agenda reshapes all corners of Indo-China and asks what can we learn from a bamboo bridge?

To watch the film before the conference session on Friday 9 July at 2.25-3.45pm we have made it available to conference registrants from Monday 5 July at:

https://vimeo.com/431670678 (password: IAG2021)

We request that viewers do not pass this link onto others.

At the conference session on Friday 9 July  at 2.25-3.45pm there will be time to watch the film, followed by a panel of speakers who will discuss how documentary making and research practice can coalesce.

Panellists:

• Vickie Zhang
• Lisa Palmer
• Isaac Lyne
• Katherine Gibson