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A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.
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- TriviaThe film takes place in 2055.
- GoofsAt the end of a timeline depicting the disasters Earth has to endure thanks to man's effect on global warming, an image of Earth is shown. Despite all talk of melting ice caps and rising sea levels, Earth's land mass looks exactly as it does when the film was made.
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Alvin DuVernay: In my opinion our use or misuse of resources the last 100 years or so, I'd probably rename that age, something like The Age of Ignorance, The Age of Stupid.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Pauw & Witteman: Episode #4.11 (2009)
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Written by Chris Brierley
Produced by Paul Sampson & Chris Brierley
Performed by Stupid Orchestra
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The subject of climate change is often covered but rarely brought to the big screen. This ambitious low budget project is well worth viewing because it will make you think just that little more about how we're draining resources on earth.
It's a neat idea. The late and much missed Pete Postlethwaite is an archivist who spends the entire film touching a computer screen showing us reasons why the planet ended up in such a desolate state in 2055.
Interlaced with six separate documentary stories covering various aspects of climate change are snippets of news recordings, social commentary and animation hybrid. It all works rather well, your interest is kept high and the stories all work the grey matter into overdrive. All held together by Postlethwaite who in reality has very little to do but does it rather well nonetheless.
Most certainly worth a watch and just may well tempt you to try reduce your carbon emission. A good effort all round.
It's a neat idea. The late and much missed Pete Postlethwaite is an archivist who spends the entire film touching a computer screen showing us reasons why the planet ended up in such a desolate state in 2055.
Interlaced with six separate documentary stories covering various aspects of climate change are snippets of news recordings, social commentary and animation hybrid. It all works rather well, your interest is kept high and the stories all work the grey matter into overdrive. All held together by Postlethwaite who in reality has very little to do but does it rather well nonetheless.
Most certainly worth a watch and just may well tempt you to try reduce your carbon emission. A good effort all round.
- delfranklin1969
- Jan 29, 2011
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- £650,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $346,176
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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