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05 Jun 2008

Age of Stupid?

Posted by: Ed Gillespie

Age of Stupid?

Went along to a sneaky preview of this new climate change movie yesterday and came out feeling as if my heart-strings had been plucked by the nimble fingers of a Spanish guitarist...it's a retrospective film starring the ever charismatic Pete Postlethwaite as the 'Archivist', a man in charge of curating the collective, creative and cultural outputs of humanity and representatives of the planet's flora and fauna in a repository off the coast of Svalbard in the late twenty-first century. The earth has been ravaged by runaway climate change and Pete takes us through the crucial years, using real news and documentary footage, to illustrate how despite knowing the challenge we failed to act in time...

The film doesn't exactly fulfil Futerra's rules on creating positive visions of the future but the animations in it explaining complex issues like contraction and convergence are absolutely superb (even Boris Johnson might understand C&C if he saw the film). The film's website is http://www.crudemovie.net/page/synopsis, it's a 'crowd-funded' project and there is still time to donate to what to me is a visceral, compelling and provocative encapsulation of our slow, collective suicide. Remember...it doesn't HAVE to be like this!

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