Karin Bornett
Have we arrived in a new geological age? From the point of view of the Anthropocene Working Group, that is the case. In the meantime, humans are "so dominant over the fate of the globe that this change in balance is sufficient to proclaim a new geological age." to collect and make it clear how much man dominates the whole planet. "
Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky, span “the arc from the kilometer-long concrete walls, which now have to protect more than half of China's coasts, to the world's largest excavator in open-cast mining in North Rhine-Westphalia, a potash mine in the Urals, the Siberian industrial city of Norilsk, the Australian Great Barrier Reef to evaporation basins in the Atacama Desert, where lithium is extracted, which shimmers in psychedelic colors, ”is the official description of the film. Dramaturgically, the Canadian production is “at the crossroads of art and science”.
