Land Underwater review – emotive record of Spanish villages destroyed by dam flood | Film
In 2003 the Itoiz dam in Navarre, Spain, was completed and its reservoir filled in, submerging seven villages and three nature reserves in the process. Environmental group Solidari@s con Itoiz fought hard against this destructive ecological event. In addition to direct action including physically sabotaging the dam compound, the activists also closely monitored and filmed its construction. Created in clandestine circumstances, these hazy recordings emerge like a warning from the past in Maddi Barber’s spectral, enigmatic…