![]() Other aggressions committed by man toward nature, whether in the form ofĮxtractions, dumps, extension of cities and actions that lead to the extinction Of course, the film talks about it, but it also shows us many Talk, and rightly so, about climate change caused by greenhouse gases andĭeforestation. Therefore entered the era of the human being.Ĭanadian directors invites us on a journey around the planet - six continents,Ģ0 countries - to see how, all over the world, man has taken over nature,Īffected it, transformed it, abused it, and ransacked it. ![]() Geological and natural forces that had prevailed until then. ![]() Scientists consider that, since the arrival of the industrial revolution at theĮnd of the 18th century, the impact of man on nature took precedence over the We are still in the geological period called the Holocene, more and more Anthropocene then becomes a plea for collective awareness, namely thatĮveryone can contribute to the survival of the planet.Īnthropocene: a word that recently appeared in our vocabulary and which, Observe a very ancient land, which humans have destroyed in a few thousand The trio of Canadian directors invites us on a journey around the planet - six continents, 20 countries - to see how, all over the world, man has taken over nature, affected it, transformed it, abused it, and ransacked it.In short, humanity is drowning in its own stupidity. It is also lodged in thisĬhinese coast that workers raise with concrete tubes to ward off the inevitable Ravage the earth in search of precious metals. It lives in gigantic machines, stuffed with electronics, which Reality, the aesthetic point of view is total provocation.Īdopt an iconoclastic point of view, like of the Chinese artist who ends theįilm and who fashions absolutely magnificent sculptures on elephant tusks,Ĭonceding, not without provocation or stupidity, that he does not mind the Immensities’ the filmmakers fly over resemble bodies or abstract paintings. The main ambiguity lies in the way the threeįilmmakers sublimate, thanks to the camera, the worst of our humanity. These magnificent colored and fractured expanses are the result of theĮxtraction of metals pushed to its maximum. To film sublime landscapes, in the manner of Yann Arthus Bertrand, except that Tusks of elephants that men unload from trucks. With an endless fire, filmed as close as possible and looking as if it wereĮmerging from the heart of the earth. On the planet, produced and filmed by de Pencier. Subject of Manufactured Landscapes, a documentary directed by Baichwal in 2006,Īnd made with her, in 2013, Watermark, a documentary on the footprint of water Ties long before co-directing Anthropocene: Baichwal and de Pencier are husbandĪnd wife, and Burtynsky, known for his photos of industrial landscapes, was the Yet, we come outįrozen and disconcerted that our self-destructive drive can so reshape the Subject to be summed up in an hour and a half of projection. Geology and the deleterious influence of man on the ecosystem is too complex a Warning about the disappearance of animals, and the warming of the oceans, all To show the ecological disaster that awaits us, denouncing unlimited mining, That achieves the paradox of making beautiful the disaster wreaked on nature byįilmmakers - Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas De Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky - aim ![]() With the support of Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, is a disturbing odyssey Organized by the Royal Film Commission in cooperation with Greener Screen and This film, screened yesterday as part of Films about Humans and Our Planet,
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