The Socrates Project is proud to partner with Art Gallery of Hamilton for their annual Film Festival.
Join us for a film screening of documentary ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch, followed by a Q&A with one of the filmmakers Nicholas de Pencier, moderated by Aisha Jamal, Canadian Film Programmer at Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Film Festival.
Running time: 87 minutes, English. PG | DOCUMENTARY
(you will be taken to a separate secure payment page hosted by Art Gallery of Hamilton)
Second show date on October 20. Details here.
About ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch
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.
Described as a shocking and beautiful documentary, the film, which premiered in TIFF 2018, urges viewers to critically reevaluate the human species breadth and impact on the world.
Jennifer Baichwal has been directing and producing documentaries for over 20 years. Her films have played all over the world and won multiple awards nationally and internationally, including an International Emmy, 3 Gemini Awards, and Best Cultural and Best Independent Canadian Documentary at Hot Docs, for features such as Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles, The Holier It Gets, Act of God, and Payback.
Edward Burtynsky is known as one of the world’s most respected photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are included in the collections of over sixty major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California. His imagery explores the collective impact we as a species are having on the surface of the planet; an inspection of the human systems we’ve imposed onto natural landscapes.
Nicholas de Pencier is a documentary Director, Producer, and Director of Photography. Selected credits include Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (International Emmy), The Holier It Gets, (Best Canadian Doc, Hot Docs), The True Meaning of Pictures (Gemini, Best Arts), Hockey Nomad(Gemini, Best Sports), Manufactured Landscapes, (TIFF Best Canadian Feature; Genie, Best Doc), and Act of God (Gala Opening Night, Hot Docs). He was the Producer and Director of Photography of Watermark,(Special Presentation, TIFF & Berlin, Toronto Film Critics Award, Best Canadian Film, CSA Best Documentary), and Black Code (TIFF 2016), which he also wrote and directed.
Aisha Jamal is a Toronto-based film programmer, filmmaker and College professor. She is Canadian programmer at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and Head of Programming at Syria Film Festival. Her documentaries have screened at festivals and venues worldwide. She is currently working on her first feature-length documentary for the Documentary Channel, while teaching film theory and history at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario.
