The Dryden will screen Vapor Trail (Clark) (John Gianvito, U.S. 2010, 264 min., DCP, Tagalog w/subtitles).

Vapor Trail (Clark) is a documentary essay exploring circumstances of toxic contamination around the former U.S. military bases in the Philippines as the locus for a meditation on historical amnesia, colonial privilege, and the consequences of unchecked militarism. Interweaving both cinema verité and interview footage of Filipino victims and their families, environmental spokespersons, and community activists, along with early photographic material pertaining to the Philippine-American War, partisan songs, historical texts, and landscape photography, Vapor Trail (Clark) is an attempt to construct a work capable of rendering some measure of this human and environmental tragedy and the complexities of its remedy.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Apr-4]