Lost Rivers
Directed by Caroline Bacle7.78.5
Once upon a time, in almost every industrial city, countless rivers flowed. We built houses along their banks. Our roads hugged their curves. And their currents fed our mills and factories. But as cities grew, we polluted rivers so much that they became conduits for deadly waterborne diseases like cholera, which was 19th century's version of the Black Plague. Our solution two centuries ago was to bury rivers underground and merge them with sewer networks. Today, under the city, they still flow, out of sight and out of mind... until now. That's because urban dwellers are on a quest to reconnect with this denigrated natural world. LOST RIVERS takes us on an adventure down below and across the globe, retracing the history of these lost urban rivers by plunging into archival maps and going underground with clandestine urban explorers. We search for the disappeared Petite rivière St-Pierre in Montreal, the Garrison Creek in Toronto, the River Tyburn in London, the Saw Mill River in New York, and the Bova-Celato River in Bresica, Italy. Could we see these rivers again? To find the answer, we meet visionary urban thinkers, activists and artists from around the world.
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Lost Rivers was released on March 1, 2013.
Lost Rivers was directed by Caroline Bacle.
Lost Rivers has a runtime of 72 min.
Lost Rivers was produced by Katarina Soukup.
The key characters in Lost Rivers are Narration (Caroline Bacle).
Lost Rivers is rated Not Rated.
Lost Rivers is a Documentary film.
Lost Rivers has an audience rating of 7.7 out of 10.