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Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
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Canada • Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier & Edward Burtynsky • 2018
Humanity's damage to ecological systems becomes poignantly clear.
In 2016, a group of scientists known as the Anthropocene Working Group declared the end of the Holocene—a geological epoch that had charact...
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Goodbye Gauley Mountain
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Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens • USA • 2014 • An ecosexual love story.
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle have returned to the former's home state of West Virginia. Mountain-top removal, a form of surface mining that destroys local peaks to get at veins of cheap coal below, has de...
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Manufactured Landscapes
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Jennifer Baichwal • Canada • 2006 • A nuanced picture of the ecological toll of the way we live now.
Photographer Edward Burtynsky has won international accolades for his large-scale photographs of 'manufactured landscapes'—sites of industrial waste and ruin. In an ethically ambi...
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Pop Aye
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Kirsten Tan • 2016 • Thailand-Singapore • A retired architect journeys home with an elephant in tow.
Kirsten Tan's debut posits an unlikely friendship as a man and an elephant journey to Thailand's Isan province.
Thana is a middle-aged architect living in Bangkok. While professi...
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Seeds of Time
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Sandy McLeod • USA • 2015 • Building seed banks that will stand the test of time.
Agriculturist Cary Fowler, director of Global Crop Diversity Trust and co-founder of Norway's Svalbard Global Seed Vault, has spent his life's work seeking to safeguard biodiversity. Since humans ev...
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The Messenger
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Su Rynard • Canada, France, Costa Rica, Germany, Netherlands, Turkey, United States • 2015
An encompassing vision of the lives of songbirds and their integral role in wider ecosystems.
For thousands of years, songbirds have been regarded as spiritual creatures, a link between the...
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The Tree
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Julie Bertuccelli • France • 2010 • The restorative power of nature in the face of loss.
Dawn and Peter live with their four children in the idyllic outskirts of Brisbane, Australia. Bathed in sunshine dappled by a glorious Moreton Bay fig tree, their life consists of resplenden...
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Trouble The Water
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Carl Deal & Tia Lessen • 2008 • USA • An African-American couple fights to survive Hurricane Katrina
Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine producers Carl Deal and Tia Lessen illuminate the racial politics of environmental crisis vis-à-vis a young couple's battle to survive Hur...
