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BY CAMILLA MO RTENSEN
CL AIRE C AMPBELL-WILLIAMS
I N O C C U P I E D CA S CAD IA
ACTIVIST FILM
Occupied Cascadia at the UO
OCCUPIED CASCADIA: Producers/editors, Mel Sweet and Devin Hess.
Executive director, Casey Bryan Corcoran. Score: Zoë Keating and Hassan
Estakhrian. Featuring, Charles Eisenstein, Derrick Jensen, Steven Hawley, Lierre
Keith, Alexander Baretich, Max Wilbert, Claire Campbell-Williams, Chad Eneas and
more. R. 125 minutes. 2012. 00021
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he Cascadia Bioregion, according to Bend-
based independent filmmakers Mel Sweet and
Devin Hess, “is defined by geomorphology,
including all watersheds that flow west from the
continental divide through the rainforests of the
West Coast.” It extends from the southeast
Alaska Panhandle south into northern California and as
far east as Missoula, Mont. Occupied Cascadia, they say,
is “the first feature-length film to explore the Cascadian
bioregional autonomist movement.” If you are not
familiar with that movement, or always wanted to know
what that blue and green flag with the Doug fir on it was
about, then pick up a copy of the 1975 utopian novel
Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach, and you’ll start to get an
idea.
The documentary, filmed over the course of a year,
has scenes from Occupations in the Northwest, gorgeous
shots of mountains and rivers, and still more, sometimes
disturbingly lovely, images of crowded cities and of
environmental destruction. The scenes are interspersed
with narrators from author and enviro-activist Derrick
Jensen to Native American Chad Eneas, who move the
film from storytelling to patriarchy to greenwashing and
more. It’s all set to a haunting background score by Zoë
Keating and Hassan Estakhrian.
Despite a clear effort to include women and First
Nations people, the film does feel dominated by the
voices of white men. Though those white men, like
Jensen, Charles Eisenstein and Steven Hawley, say a lot
of things that need to be said about the state of the Earth
and the environment, I would like to see a film that calls
to “re-contextualize popular revolt within our life-world
as a movement to decolonize, un-occupy and re-inhabit
the living Earth through deep understanding and
identification with our specific bioregions” start with a
lengthy voiceover by a person of color, or a female-
identified narrator rather than a white guy.
Don’t go watch Occupied Cascadia looking for
action; watch it for its meditations on changing the world
and personal action, starting perhaps with the Northwest.
Think My Dinner with Andre with one-at-a-time narrators
rather than dialogue. Watch it to learn more about the
concept of deep green resistance and the criticisms
environmental activists have not only for corporations
and politicians, but also for one another. Remarks such as
those by Eneas, a traditional knowledge keeper for the
Okanagan Nation, who tells the viewer “I could tell you
guys lots of stories about water because it’s that sacred
and that powerful,” paired with images of salmon and
dams, remind us that many disasters are manmade. The
film’s discussion of man’s influence on disasters is
particularly telling in the wake of Hurricane Sandy (aka
the Frankenstorm) in this era of climate change. ■
Occupied Cascadia will be screening 8 pm Thursday, Nov. 8, at the University of
Oregon, Lawrence 11. The fi lmmakers will be present for a Q&A following the
fi lm. For more info go to CascadiaMatters.org
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