DEAD ZONES.

‘Dead Zones’ is a documentary about oxygen deprived zones in the ocean and Dutch water quality. It was made on the occasion of the same-named multidisciplinary art-research project by visual artist Suzette Bousema.

Man-made dead zones are areas in coastal waters where micro algae blooms are fed by fertilizers from agriculture and other waste streams. When these blooms decompose, all oxygen is used by bacteria, and nothing is left for higher life forms. In the Baltic Sea, an are of 60.000 square meters is a dead zone. In the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi feeds a seasonal dead zone of about 23.000 square kilometers, as big as half of the Netherlands. In the Netherlands we have dead zones in a.o. Grevelingenmeer.

In the last 50 years, because of human impact and use of fertilizers for agriculture, the nutrient concentration has increased enormously, resulting in dead zones in coastal areas around the world. It has been calculated that now we have about 500 coastal dead zones, while in the 1950’s only about 50 existed.

Concept & storyline by Suzette Bousema
Filmed & edited by Kobin Majid
Music by Rafaele Andrade
Animations by Idris van Heffen & Wim Dijksterhuis

More at: https://suzettebousema.nl/Dead-zones-documentary

Album Soundtrack here