Anthropocene: The Human Epoch + A Short Film About Ice
classified 12A PSPlease note: This was screened in Oct 2021
Find out how human activities have made significant lasting and potentially irreversible changes to the Earth in this timely - and frequently terrifying - documentary narrated by Alicia Vikander.
Following 10 years of research, the Anthropocene Working Group now argue that we are now in a new geologic phase (the Anthropocene epoch) - a time when humans now change the Earth (in significant lasting and potentially irreversible ways) more than all the planet’s natural processes combined.
From the harsh industrial landscapes of Siberia, to the towering white mountains of marble in Carrara, Italy, to the uneven plastic peaks of Dandora Landfill in Kenya, watch the aggressive extraction of the planet’s resources in astonishing scale and devastating beauty. The dawn of Anthropocene is illustrated in our plastic imprints in the sediment; in the delicate creations of enlightened craftsmen, etched into marble surfaces and ivory tusks; in the unnatural depths tunneled through rock by masterminds of human design.
Revealing obscure sites of human destruction, the film potently portrays the processes dominating and repurposing the earth for the material gains of humanity.