Item – Theses Canada

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OCLC number
758060784
Link(s) to full text
LAC copy
LAC copy
Author
Mullen, Kathleen,1968-
Title
Breathtaking.
Degree
M.F.A. -- York University, 2010
Publisher
Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, [2011]
Description
1 microfiche
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
<?Pub Inc> 'Breathtaking' is a documentary film that combines personal biography, environmental and workplace issues, and socio-political dialogue. Interweaving public debates with personal memories, 'Breathtaking' is an intimate film that focuses on my fathers' exposure to asbestos, and his subsequent death decades later from Mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos, a natural occurring resource still mined and used today. The film travels from my family's home in Gibsons, BC, where I interview my mother and my sister Anne-Mary, to the town of Thetford, Quebec where asbestos is still being mined for export. The film goes to India, where Canadian asbestos is used for low-cost housing, and to Detroit for an Asbestos Awareness Conference. ' Breathtaking' is a deeply personal and political journey through the landscape of asbestos mining today, and a query into how and why we repeat the mistakes of the past in the present-day.
ISBN
9780494622926
049462292X