Arid Lands (Minneapolis Film Screening) April 12, 2007

A documentary feature about the land and people of the Columbia Basin in southeastern Washington state. Sixty years ago, the Hanford nuclear site produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and today the area is the focus of the largest environmental cleanup in history. Arid Lands takes us into a world of sports fishermen, tattoo artists, housing developers, ecologists, and radiation scientists living and working in the area. It tells the story of how people changed the landscape over time, and how the landscape affected their lives.

Reviewed in City Pages (Editor's Pick)

Tickets $5 and $7. Followed by a discussion with co-director Josh Wallaert and University of Minnesota geographers Bruce Braun and George Henderson.



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