Posts Tagged ‘ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch’
The 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 MoreMaster photog Edward Burtynsky shows us the lay of the land in new National Gallery exhibit
By Lynn Saxberg | Ottawa Citizen Master photographer Edward Burtynsky has dedicated much of his life to documenting the impact of humans on earth through dramatic, large-format photographs of industrial landscapes around the world. The St. Catharines-born artist has won numerous awards for his work, and his striking photos are included in the collections of some…
Read MoreReview: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is both meditative and urgent
By Kevin Ritchie NOW Toronto NNNN The third collaboration between director Baichwal, photographer Burtynsky and DP de Pencier (now billed as co-director) continues the trio’s large-scale visual exploration of environmental change and degradation, but in the context of scientific research showing that we have moved into a new geological epoch defined by human activity. Read…
Read MoreCinefest: Stark warning amidst beauty
By Mary Keown | The Sudbury Star There is a scene in Anthropocene: The Human Epoch during which a man nonchalantly jumps off the ladder of an excavator. It is the largest excavator in the world and as the camera pans outward, you realize just how enormous this piece of equipment really is. This excavator, which…
Read MoreAnthropocene’s Three Filmmakers and Ecological Disaster
By Susan G. Cole POV Magazine Lights, camera, spectacular success – backlash. So it goes with the films co-created by Ed Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier. The trio is launching Anthropocene, the third in their eco-conscious trilogy that began with Manufactured Landscapes and continued with Watermark, which won the Toronto Critics Film Associations’s best…
Read MoreTIFF Review: ‘Anthropocene: The Human Epoch’
By Patrick Mullen | Point of View Magazine Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, Nicholas de Pencier document the devastating consequences of human activity in Anthropocene. In a way, they’ve been documenting it for nearly fifteen years. Anthropocene is the third installment in the team’s epic trilogy of spectacular environmental essay films that began with Manufactured Landscapes (2006) andWatermark (2013). The latest film is…
Read MoreAnthropocene: The Human Epoch is Edward Burtynksy’s Devastating Call to Action
By Elizabeth Pagliacolo | Azure Magazine Edward Burtynsky’s new doc (debuting at TIFF) and upcoming exhibition (at the AGO) make the case – through stunning photography – that humans are impacting the Earth more than all natural systems combined. There is a scene in Anthropocene: The Human Epoch where the camera hovers on a concentric circular motif…
Read MoreEdward Burtynsky’s Anthropocene premieres at TIFF
By Jessica Wei | Post City Toronto The renowned Toronto-based photographer Edward Burtynsky’s career has traced the movement of humans on this earth through the industrial footprint we’ve left on it. Now, his career culminates in his latest work, Anthropocene. The new multi-disciplinary art, publishing and film project, in collaboration with director Jennifer Baichwal and cinematographer Nicholas…
Read MoreAlicia Vikander Joins Toronto-Bound Documentary ‘Anthropocene’ As Narrator
By Andreas Wiseman | Deadline EXCLUSIVE: Tomb Raider and The Danish Girl star Alicia Vikander has lent her voice to big-canvas documentary Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, which will get its world premiere this week at the Toronto Film Festival. The science-themed doc, from filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier and photographer Edward Burtynsky, contends that human impact on the planet means we have…
Read MoreTIFF 2018: Will the wait be worth it for Dolan, Arcand and Burtynsky?
By Kate Taylor | The Globe and Mail It takes money, time and persistence to get a movie made in any country but in Canada the task can feel like moving a mountain. I’m looking forward to the slate of Canadian films at the Toronto International Film Festival this year and in particular I am eager…
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