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Every day we see evidence of
littering and pollution, yet accept it as “part of life”. We seldom apply the
concept of globalization to litter and garbage. This trailer for “Midway”
focuses on an uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific, showing how our
garbage is killing albatrosses.
Caution: Some scenes in this trailer are disturbing.
MIDWAY (trailer) – a film by Chris Jordan
The MIDWAY film project is a
powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic
environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of
thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with
plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch. Returning to the island over several
years, our team is witnessing the cycles of life and death of these birds as a
multi-layered metaphor for our times. With photographer Chris
Jordan as our guide, we walk through the fire of horror and grief, facing the
immensity of this tragedy—and our own complicity—head on. And in this process,
we find an unexpected route to a transformational experience of beauty,
acceptance, and understanding.
We frame our story in the
vividly gorgeous language of state-of-the-art high-definition digital
cinematography, surrounded by millions of live birds in one of the world’s most
beautiful natural sanctuaries. The viewer will experience stunning
juxtapositions of beauty and horror, destruction and renewal, grief and joy,
birth and death, coming out the other side with their heart broken open and
their worldview shifted. Stepping outside the stylistic templates of
traditional environmental or documentary films, MIDWAY will take viewers on a
guided tour into the depths of their own spirits, delivering a profound message
of reverence and love that is already reaching an audience of tens of millions
of people around the world.
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