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Darwin's Nightmare is a 2004 Austrian-French-Belgian documentary film written and directed by Hubert Sauper, dealing with the environmental and social effects of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania.
Sep 1, 2004 · Darwin’s Nightmare takes a look at the social and environmental consequences of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania. After the Nile Perch species was introduced to the lake for exporting to lucrative European markets, hundreds of other endemic species became extinct.
With massive epidemics, raging civil wars, crime, homelessness, and drug-addicted children, the question becomes: what do the reportedly “empty” planes deliver to this destitute community? The answer is as shocking as it is devastating, and Darwin’s Nightmare becomes a nightmare for all mankind.
Jan 21, 2005 · Darwin's Nightmare: Directed by Hubert Sauper. With Elizabeth 'Eliza' Maganga Nsese, Raphael Tukiko Wagara, Dimond Remtulia, Marcus Nyoni. A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria.
Hubert Sauper's Oscar-nominated documentary about the Nile perch, a species introduced into Lake Victoria as an experiment in the sixties. Since then, the fish has not only wiped out the...
DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE presents a powerful account of the downside of globalization, where the benefits of world trade are only felt on one side and where people and the land they live in suffers as a result.
Darwin’s Nightmare sets out the logic of this biopolitical regime with devastating clarity. The film gives us a remarkable insight into the ideological justifications, on every level of politics, religion and everyday life, that allow such a disaster to keep on occurring.
