ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch Film Screening

As part of the A Broken Planet exhibition programming KWAG is holding a screening of ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch.

A film by Jennifer Baichwal Nick De Pencier and Edward Burtynsky

A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making 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: The Human Epoch 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.

Image: Film still courtesy of ANTHROPOCENE: A Human Epoch.

Host or Publisher Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery