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Title: Sludge (The Water Barons’ Show) – Synth Farmers
Runtime: 4 min
Country: UK
Director: Grant Hunter
Placement: Award of Excellence
Competition: September, 2025
Synopsis: Introducing the latest Cosmic Microwave film – a music video for the Synth Farmers track Sludge (The Water Barons’ Show)
Biosolids aka sludge has been shown to contain microplastics, heavy metals and forever chemicals.
In July 2025 in the UK the Environment Agency released data that states incidents of serious pollution have risen 60% in a year. The government then announced that Ofwat (the water authority) is set to be abolished and a new all powerful regulator created all because of systemic problems with our water system. But is it too little too late?