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Lucent

107 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Pig farming in Australia looks orderly from the outside; Lucent goes behind the walls with hand-held and hidden cameras to show what the industry treats as routine. The footage comes from more than fifty farms and slaughterhouses across the country, much of it never broadcast before, and it documents sow stalls, farrowing crates, and the handling of animals at slaughter without narration softening what the camera catches. Lindsay McDougall, known as a Triple J radio host, narrates, guiding the material rather than editorializing over it. The film grew out of a crowdfunding campaign launched in late 2013 by activists who wanted independent access to facilities the industry does not open to visitors or journalists. It also traces what large-scale confinement operations do outside the barn: waste runoff into water and soil, air pollution, and the routine use of antibiotics that raises resistance concerns. Rated MA15+, the film is blunt evidence rather than argument, and it later became the basis for a follow-up, Dominion, which widens the same camera approach to other animal industries.