ERDE (EARTH): Virtual Screening
Mon, Apr 27
|Epsilon Spires Virtual Cinema
Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans - with shovels, excavators or dynamite. Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Our Daily Bread) observes humankind as a geological factor, in mines, quarries and construction sites, engaged in a constant struggle to take possession of the planet.
Time & Location
Apr 27, 2020, 12:00 AM
Epsilon Spires Virtual Cinema
About the event
Tickets are $12, Available Now: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/earthepsilonspires (closed-captioning available)
Eminently timely while avoiding familiar rhetorical devices, EARTH casts its glance widely to depict the myriad of ways that human beings across the globe transform their natural environments to present a portrait of our world in the Anthropocene.
Filmed at seven locations that humans have transformed on a grand scale: entire mountains being moved in California, a tunnel being sliced through rock at the Brenner Pass, an open-cast mine in Hungary, a marble quarry in Italy, a copper mine in Spain, the salt mine used to store radioactive waste in Wolfenbüttel and a tar sands landscape in Canada. Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s camera patiently records the labour of the machines in their massive disintegrating landscapes and what those involved in these undertakings have to say about their work and its impact on the environment, landscapes, and economies.
On Earth Day, April 22nd at 7pm…