Tue Feb 26, 2019 – 5:30 pm | Hendricks Arts Center
Haze: It’s Complicated
Directed by Isaac Kerlow
Singapore | 70 min | 2010
The burning of the peat forests throughout tropical Southeast Asia creates significant haze pollution that poses significant challenges to human health and the economies of the region. A government-sponsored transmigration program fueled the boom of oil palm farming and local minorities were displaced. Scientists, government officials, local farmers and displaced minorities present their conflicting points of view
Issac Kerlow
Director, Writer
Isaac Kerlow (Director, HAZE) is an independent filmmaker, artist and writer who has lived in Asia for over 10 years. Many of his recent projects are inspired by natural hazards or man‐made disasters, including CHANGE (2016) about anthropogenic change, SHADOWS (2014) a magic realism tale about the struggle to preserve the rain forests, and Sudden Nature (2011) a film that portrays the relation between humans and Earth as a young romance.
