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ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH

By Jennifer BAICHWAL, Nicholas DE PENCIER, Edward BURTYNSKY

AEGEAN FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Documentary - Completed 2018

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2018

Special Presentations

Sundance Film Festival 2019

Spotlight

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2019

Santa Barbara IFF 2019

Portland IFF 2019

DC Environmental Film Festival 2019

Krakora Award

Vilnius IFF 2019

Boulder IFF 2019

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- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, MANDARIN, CANTONESE, ITALIAN, GERMAN
- Duration
- 87 mn
- Director(s)
- Jennifer BAICHWAL, Nicholas DE PENCIER, Edward BURTYNSKY
- Producer(s)
- Nicholas DE PENCIER
- Synopsis
- A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, Anthropocene is a feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky.
  
  Third in a trilogy that includes Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013), the film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, are arguing that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century, because of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth.
  
  From concrete seawalls in China that now cover 60% of the mainland coast, to the biggest terrestrial machines ever built in Germany, to psychedelic potash mines in Russia’s Ural Mountains, to metal festivals in the closed city of Norilsk, to the devastated Great Barrier Reef in Australia and surreal lithium evaporation ponds in the Atacama desert, the filmmakers have traversed the globe using high end production values and state of the art camera techniques to document evidence and experience of human planetary domination.
  
  At the intersection of art and science, Anthropocene witnesses in an experiential and non-didactic sense a critical moment in geological history — bringing a provocative and unforgettable experience of our species’ breadth and impact.

ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH

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