TerraForma

The screening will be followed by a discussion on environmental issues. 

St. Helena, a remote volcanic island located in the South Atlantic Ocean, sat mostly barren for its first million years, until it was radically transformed by Victorian naturalists into a tropical paradise via a process of 'terraforming'. The strategic position of the island for travellers bound for South America or Asia had been recognised, and the island’s ecology significantly reshaped through artificial creation of biodiversity to fit the demands of self-sufficiency at the expense of what existed before. In the 21st century, scientists return to the 'scene of the crime' as they search for further answers relating to the process of geo-engineering the entire planet and colonizing new planets. TerraForma is an eye-opening reflection on the invasive encroachment on untamed habitats.