Astonishing visuals... MUST-SEE documentary
In 2007 James Balog started a multi-year initiative called "Extre Ice Survey" (or EIS), targeting glaciers in Iceland, Greenland and Alaska where he placed about two dozen cameras to document what is happening to glaciers around the world. Director Jeff Orlowski and his team tagged along and the results of this were captured in a documentary called "Chasing Ice". It played very briefly here in SW Ohio a few months back and I missed it but I finally had a chance to see it last month at the West End Cinema in Washington DC.
"Chasing Ice" (2012 release; 76 min.) feels like a National Geogprahic special, and this is not a surprise (nor a complaint) in that James Balog started a pre-EIS project in partnership with National Geographic. Once it became clear to Balog that this could be something very special, the project was expanded into what would become the EIS. This movie was shot over a period of almost 4 years, and the patience with which this movie came about really pays...
the cinematography, the music, and the message
We just saw this at our local film festival. While it should be seen on a big screen with great sound, if you like real stories with purpose and beauty, do not miss this one. We own fewer than 10 DVDs. This is one worth owning. This is the history of our time.
Amazing Images
We saw this film last night as part of the Honor Student program at New Mexico State University. As a photographer with over 30 years experience, I would so love to have an opportunity to go to these places and shoot some of these images for myself. The visual splendor is nothing short of amazing for both the time-lapse and the live video, and it's well worth seeing just for the visuals.
For climate change skeptics, there are two excellent points in the film. The first is that the photographer himself, James Balog, was skeptical. He trained in geology and didn't see how man-made changes could affect the huge machine that the planet is. He changed his mind. The second is a Canadian Yukon glacier scientist. They've been studying glaciers in the Yukon for something on the order of 150 years. He admits that four glaciers have actually grown over the last 50 years, but half of the remaining have disappeared entirely and the other half have shrunk.
But if this...
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