Mongolia's Reindeer People Confront Pollution in Poignant Double Music Video

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Directing duo, Sil & Jorik, launch a stunning double music video-short film for artist, Novo Amor. The fascinating films follow Mongolia’s reindeer herders, The Tsaatan, as they struggle to sustain their lifestyle amidst climate change.

The complete film runs at 12-minutes in total and is split into two music videos, which offer an eye-opening and poignant glimpse into a beautiful and fast disappearing culture. Ulaanbaater in Mongolia is the world’s most polluted capital. An ever-changing climate has devastated the country’s herders and nomads, weakening their animals and threatening an entire culture with extinction (only 40 Tsaatan families remain). As a result, many relocate to the city and burn coal to stay warm.

The first chapter, ‘Sleepless’, follows a miner, who escapes the city to find a shaman to cure his ailing daughter, who has fallen ill from air pollution. After an epic journey across breath-taking, otherworldly landscapes, the family finally finds a new home amongst reindeer herders in the forest. The second chapter, ‘Repeat Until Death’, opens with the heartfelt relationship between the daughter and a reindeer. However, she learns that even this seemingly untouched world is changing.

An essential part of the story, Ulaanbaatar’s intense pollution, only occurs in winter, when temperatures drop well below -35 degrees Celsius.

https://www.parkvillage.co.uk/news/2019/4/28/mongolias-reindeer-people-confront-pollution-in-poignant-double-music-video