Project Press
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch makes viewers think about big issues
By Nathan Krause | Nexus Newspaper About a third of the way into Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, a man installing an electric car battery is wearing a T-shirt that states these words: “Don’t know, don’t care.” Director Jennifer Baichwal, who grew up in Victoria, has created a meditative film (the third in a series, following Manufactured Landscapes and Watermark)…
Read MoreWhat happens when humans rule the Earth: Documenting the Anthropocene
By Collin Ellis TVO The trio of filmmakers behind the documentaries Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark(2013) are back with the visually stunning and sobering Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, which chronicles the impact human activity has had on the planet. An accompanying exhibition will run at the Art Gallery of Ontario until January 6. We sat down with Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky,…
Read MoreAnthropocene Examines the Shocking Impact Humans Have on the Earth
By Truc Nguyen | NUVO Magazine This month, Anthropocene—a photography and multimedia art exhibition from artists Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas de Pencier—opens simultaneously at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada, the first time the two museums have offered concurrent, complementary shows from the same artists. The Anthropocene Project also encompasses a feature documentary film arriving in theatres…
Read MoreBeautiful pictures of terrible things
By Liz Braun | Toronto Sun The end of the world is beautiful to look at. See for yourself at Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, a new film that offers magnificent pictures of the mess humans have made on this planet. Anthropocene is the name of the current geological age, a period in which the dominant influence on…
Read MoreSprawling Anthropocene project shows humanity’s enormous impact on the planet
By Murray Whyte | Toronto Star The camera sweeps slowly, right to left, along a towering ridge of ochre stone. The sense is of the monumental — the kind of majesty and scale that only the primal force of violent nature, operating at planetary scale, could yield. Then you see it, and the world turns suddenly…
Read MoreAnthropocene offers stunning and scary glances at the large-scale changes humanity has made to the planet
By Chris Knight | National Post ★★★★ Who knew the end of the world could be so beautiful? The latest eco-doc from Jennifer Baichwal (Manufactured Landscapes, Watermark), co-directed by Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas de Pencier, shows viewers some of the large-scale changes we are making to the planet. Like the second sunrise of a hydrogen bomb, they…
Read MoreAge of Anthropocene: Art highlights human destruction of Earth
By Jesse Tahirali & Marlene Leung CTV News Rainbow mountains of coloured plastic. Artificial cliffs carved into a coal mine. Sheets of pale dirt shaved clean from a shrinking forest. Humanity’s fingerprints are pressed all over the Earth’s surface, and famed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is putting them on full display at the Art Gallery of Ontario…
Read MoreCutting-edge artistry ushers in troubling new era
By Sandra Abma | CBC News This week on the list: a mind-boggling look at humankind’s impact on our planet, a showcase of animation’s best and brightest, and a big sound on a couple of small stages. Anthropocene Anthropocene, on now at the National Gallery of Canada, is a vivid voyage into the environmental catastrophe wrought by…
Read MoreAnthropocene project highlights the apocalyptic beauty of humans’ effect on the planet
By CBC Radio: The Current The burning of 10,000 elephant tusks piled into an enormous funeral pyres in Kenya’s National Park in Nairobi is both a devastating and beautiful image to look at — a reaction that photographer Edward Burtynsky intended. His photographs are part of a multimedia project called Anthropocene that merges film, photography and…
Read MoreReview: Anthropocene is a shocking and beautiful documentary
By Kate Taylor The Globe and Mail ★★★★ Vast rectangular ponds of foul yellow water lie evaporating in the Chilean desert; they will produce the lithium that powers electric-car batteries. A gorgeous red-and-grey rock is imprinted with an eye-catching circular pattern: It’s the mark of Russian potash mining, extracting one of the fertilizers that is…
Read MoreDocumenting our Man-Made Epoch
The Agenda with Steve Paikin Aired September 28 Photographer Edward Burtynsky, filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal, and director of photography Nicholas De Pencier join Steve Paikin to discuss “Anthropocene: The Human Epoch.” The multifaceted project explores humankind’s tremendous effect on planet Earth. Watch the segment here.
Read MoreThe directing trio behind Anthropocene hope you walk away enlightened and transformed
By Chris Knight | National Post The three directors of Anthropocene: The Human Epoch are trying to describe the editing process required to bring an estimated 375 hours –15 days! – of footage down to a 90-minute documentary. Jennifer Baichwal likens it to a jigsaw puzzle. “Some people have the picture right there,” she says. “And some people…
Read MoreNew exhibit Anthropocene opens at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Metro Morning with Matt Galloway A new art exhibition opens today at the AGO, looking at how humans have irreversibly transformed the planet. We hear from the three artists at the centre of the project: photographer Edward Burtynsky and filmmakers filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier. Listen here.
Read MoreAnthropocene art show and documentary will shock you with a view of human impact on the planet
By Kate Taylor The Globe and Mail The project, which includes not only a new documentary but also two museum exhibitions and an art book, gives a chilling, yet sometimes beautiful, examination of the indelible and spreading mark of human activity on the planet. Like some eerie sculpture, a dome-shaped pile of elephant tusks glimmers…
Read MoreANTHROPOCENE shows fierce beauty of rapidly collapsing Earth
By Peter Howell | Toronto Star ★★★★ ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch — a companion piece to exhibitions of the same name opening Friday at Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery in Ottawa — is rife with such horrors, yet there’s a fierce beauty to the work of Baichwal, Burtynsky and de Pencier. They travel the…
Read More