[. . . ] What does it mean to live in a place haunted
by the loss of water; can we hold the stories, memories,
and pain of those who've known it; and how do we learn
to embrace what emerges in its wake?
~ Emergence Magazine
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Quoted from Introductory Remarks to Aralkum, Emergence Magazine Newsletter, January 12, 2025
This short film (watch it here or here), which premiered online on January 12, 2025, on Emergence, shows us the landscape that was once the Aral Sea, and how, since 1960, it has been transformed from our Earth's fourth largest body of inland water into what is called Aralkum, the world's youngest desert. It re-imagines the sea's existence as an elderly fisherman seeks to set sail again.
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