EFF25: METABOLISM (2023) & Water Ecologies - Pay As You Can Gaza Appeal Fundraiser

As part of Environmental Film Festival '25, enjoy an experiential gallery screening event exploring our interconnection with water, through the merging of living environments and lived experiences, and natural and constructed ecologies.

With three short films, an artist talk by Eugenia Lim, and plenty of time to chat and mingle, the program invites audiences to rethink the world around you, because Environment is Everywhere.

This pay-as-you-can screening is presented by Trocadero Projects and Environmental Films Australia. All funds raised will be donated to the APHEDA Gaza Emergency Appeal.

PROGRAM

The Stream VIII (2017)
Japan, 6' 47"

A contemplative and visually striking sonic experience, connecting cinema, sound art, and waterways through elegant compositions, underwater views, and the delicate dance of algae swaying in the stream. A reflection on the tension between natural forces and agricultural order, capturing both beauty and resistance in motion.

Just Beneath The Surface (2023)
Torres Strait, 5' 20"

Sweeping oceanic imagery, meditative soundscapes and a symbolic performance merge with Torres Strait Islander knowledge and lived experience to consider identity, culture, and Earth’s natural cycles. Created by Erub Island artist Jimmy John Thaiday of the Kuz and Peiudu clans, this powerful, moving vision conveys our inextricable bond with the ocean.

METABOLISM (2023)
Australia, 29' 15"

A cinematic poem by artist and filmmaker Eugenia Lim that lays out a web of relationships, connections, and interdependencies with the natural and constructed ecologies around the Western Treatment Plant and Wirribi-yaluk (Werribee river).

For the Wadawurrung, Wirribi-yaluk is the ‘spine’ of Country, a waterway that has perpetuated life since time immemorial, and this experimental documentary offers a portrait of its living, working ecology and the multispecies it sustains.

Study how the body is land and land is body, and see Melbourne’s West through new eyes.

Followed by a short talk by Eugenia Lim and audience mingling.

ABOUT EFF25

16 - 23 October

Environmental Film Festival is back! 💚

Enjoy Australia's premier environmental cinema showcase, with features, shorts, documentaries, cine-art, talks, community activities and more.

This October, join us in exploring how 'Environment Is Everywhere', through stories of urban living, nature and beyond, with the best eco-cinema from around the world.

Experience 24 films, including 15 premieres, five talks & panels, three community gatherings and one very special festival party.

In this time of climate crises, reconsider the world around you through a series of incredible films and events, and marvel at how Environment Is Everywhere. 

Tickets on sale now.