Overburden focuses on Mountaintop Removal mining in West Virginia. The work is comprised of footage of active and abandoned mines juxtaposed with video portraits of activists, local residents, and miners. The work is documentary i...

Maya Ciarrocchi

Overburden

Overburden focuses on Mountaintop Removal mining in West Virginia. The work is comprised of footage of active and abandoned mines juxtaposed with video portraits of activists, local residents, and miners. The work is documentary in style but contains no commentary or interviews. My goal with Overburden is to create a space where the viewer can simply look at and take in the human and natural elements of this one issue. Through extended video portraits viewers can reflect on the people and through landscape portraits viewers are given the natural, eternal environment around them. This is not a case where some people are evil and others are good, but where everyone has specific influences and concerns, and specific ways of being a citizen in today's world.

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