To mark World Environment Day, which this year focusses on the increasingly destructive issue of ocean plastic pollution, join us for a free screening of this revealing documentary and powerful visual journey into the heart of a gut-wrenching environmental tragedy taking place amongst a colony of albatross.

One of the remotest islands on Earth, Midway is a tiny outpost in the middle of the world’s largest ocean, 2,000 miles from the nearest continent it lies halfway between North America and Asia. In 2009, as a collaboration with activist/photographer Manuel Maqueda, Artist Chris Jordan alit on Midway to photograph and film thousands of young albatrosses that lay dead on the ground, their stomachs filled with plastic. The experience was devastating, not only for what it meant for the suffering of the birds, but also for what it reflected back to us about the destructive power of our culture of mass consumption and humanity's damaged relationship with the living world.

A revelatory and existential examination of life, loss and love, this immensely touching and inspiring documentary reads like a multi-layered metaphor for our times, offering us a profound understanding of how our everyday material lives intersect with the natural world.

Presented in partnership with Triodos Bank.

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