Tribunal for lake Vättern - a staging & a document in three parts by Lina Persson

A tribunal to hear the case of Lake Vättern. Involving allegations of i violations of Article 2 in the 2010 Earth Rights Declaration. The recording took place in Sigtuna May 2019. As part of the project Climate-Just Worldings Lina Persson builds a storyworld, a vision of a different world. The film Tribunal for lake Vättern is a step in developing the jurisprudence for this storyworld. It is made together with the broad movement fighting for a new kind of law that includes nature’s rights. The tribunal was staged together with the Global Alliance for Nature’s rights (GAN). Developing her ideas around expressing non-human perspectives in film, Persson brought the water from Lake Vättern into the tribunal setting and centered the room and the documentation from the water’s position. With a 360 camera she aims at capturing a sphere with the circle of water at its center, focusing the documentation on the water surface’s reactions to what happens in the room.

Tribunal for lake Vättern - a staging & a document in three parts

session 1, 34,5 min, HD video
session 2, 34,5 min, HD video
session 3: verdict, 34,5 min, HD video

A tribunal to hear the case of Lake Vättern. Involving allegations of i violations of Article 2 in the 2010 Earth Rights Declaration. The recording took place in Sigtuna May 2019.
The recording is part of the project Climate-Just Worldings, that aims to construct an alternative universe, a place for reimagine what is possible. This staging is contributing to the process of developing the jurisprudence for this storyworld. It is made together with the broad movement fighting for a new kind of law that includes nature’s rights. The tribunal was staged together with the Global Alliance for Nature’s rights (GAN). Building on previous ideas around expressing non-human perspectives in film, and aligning with indigineous logic, Persson brought the water from Lake Vättern into the tribunal setting and centered the room and the documentation from the water’s position. With a 360 camera she aims at capturing a sphere with the circle of water at it’s center, focusing the documentation on the water surface’s reactions to what happens in the room.

https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/266314/266315

  CONTRIBUTORS: 

Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature 

End Ecocide Sweden 

Swedish Earth Right Lawyers 

Färnebo Folkhögskola

 Latinamerikagrupperna

 Lodyn Center for Earth Jurisprudence

 Indigenous Environmental Network  

DEFENDED 

Lake Vättern  

DEFENDANT 

Swedish Armed Forces  

SECRETERIAT 

Hana Begovic, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature

  JUDGES 

Stefan Mikaelsson, Sami Parliament 

Tom BK Goldtooth, Director Indigenous Environmental Network 

Margaret Stewart, Director Center for Earth Jurisprudence  

PROCECUTOR 

Gunilla Högberg Björck, Environmental Lawyer  

WITNESS 

Pia Björstrand, Swedish Earth Lawyers

GUITAR & SINGING 

Nikolas Berg,   

WATER CEREMONY 

Erena Rangimarie Rere Omaki Rhöse, daughter of the Whanagnui River 

Carmen Blanco Valer, indigenous activist & educator  

Sara Ajnnak, Sami artist 

Participants and audience at Earth Rights Conference Sigtuna 2019

  TECHNICIAN 

Tobias Snällh

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