Sag Harbor Cinema
Saturday April 18 Time TBA
Directors: Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier

Special Guests: environmentalist Alex Matthiessen, ecologist and author Carl Safina and artist Bryan Hunt

A stunning sensory experience and cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is a years-in-the-making feature documentary from the award-winning team behind Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013) and narrated by Alicia Vikander. The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century as a result 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 massive marble quarries in Carrara, the filmmakers have traversed the globe using state of the art camera techniques to document the evidence and experience of human planetary domination. At the intersection of art and science, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch witnesses a critical moment in geological history — bringing a provocative and unforgettable experience of our species’ breadth and impact.
Some praise for the film:
"Equal parts beautiful, alarming and essential.” – Edward Norton
"A movie thousands of years in the making. A dizzying, dimensional tour of scale and time, forcing us to wonder how a sense of earth-centric balance can be restored." – Los Angeles Times
"Images speak volumes without words... the movie is potent and frequently terrifying." – The New York Times