Research / Staff
killian.doherty@ed.ac.uk
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Uppland is a research film about a mining town in the remote highlands of Liberia West Africa, once a thriving mining community, now decaying and desolate: a concrete ruin in the West African bush. Exploring the town, this film and research is about architecture, the remnants of colonialism, and the spiritual and environmental cost of industrial mining; charting the story of the failed promises of modernity and its forgotten injustices. The film is currently being re-translated back into the Liberian native language of Mano to be restored to the rural, indigenous communities and residents of Yekepa next year.
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Still from Uppland, 2018.
Edward Lawrenson and Killian Doherty
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Still taken from ‘Building a Railroad’ 1970.
Courtesy of Herron Rail Videos