Waste of Our Time
In 1983, the South Wales Miners' Library produced a documentary film featuring community members from the Dulais Valley. In Waste of Our Time: Pictures of a Changing Valley, local residents discussed the villages of Banwen, Onllwyn and Seven Sisters and the effects coal mining had had on the landscape, people and wildlife. But how has life and landscape in the Dulais Valley changed since 1983?
In the months leading up to the Being Human Festival 2021, the South Wales Miners' Library and local residents created a new documentary. Using the original documentary as a starting point they consider the changes to landscape, wildlife and community life since 1983 and the social and environmental legacy of fossil fuels.