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title: "Chris Jordan’s ALBATROSS movie is offered as a free public artwork"
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# Chris Jordan’s ALBATROSS movie is offered as a free public artwork

The documentary film ALBATROSS was offered as a “permanent gift to the world” on [World Oceans Day](http://www.worldoceansday.org/) this month, when it was screened at the United Nations, for free viewing and downloading ([click here](https://vimeo.com/264508490)).

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/L/Laysan/Laysan-regurge-plastic-Chris-Jordan.jpg)

 A Laysan Albatross regurgitates plastic fragments to its chick

  ![laysan albatross corpse midway chris jordan](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/L/Laysan/laysan_albatross_corpse_midway_chris_jordan.jpg)

 Corpse of a Laysan Albatross on Midway showing its stomach contents of plastic artefacts, including a cigarette lighter

 Photographs by Manuel Maqueda and Chris Jordan

 Filmed at [Midway Atoll](https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1434-acap-breeding-site-no-36-midway-atoll-black-footed-laysan-and-short-tailed-albatrosses-within-a-world-heritage-site) in the North Pacific it concentrates on the ingestion of plastic artefacts by ACAP-listed and [globally Near Threatened](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/22698365) Laysan Albatrosses *Phoebastria immutabilis*.

 Find more information on the 97-minute film [here](https://www.albatrossthefilm.com/).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 21 June 2018*