The next film in The Elements: An
Annual Environmental Film Series will be Anthropocene. The
screening will be held Monday, April 8, 2019 at 7pm at Chapman Hall on the campus of Middlesex Community College, 100 Training Hill Road, Middletown, CT. Directions and public transportation information
can be found here. As
always, the film is open to the public and free of charge.
Anthropocene is about humanity's massive re-engineering of the planet, and a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene, describing a planet shaped more by mankind than by nature.
"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.
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 surreal lithium evaporation ponds in the Atacama desert, the filmmakers have traversed the globe...to document evidence and experience of human planetary domination.
At the intersection of art and science, Anthropocene witnesses...a critical moment in geological history — bringing a provocative and unforgettable experience of our species' breadth and impact."
More information and a trailer can be found at https://theanthropocene.org/film/.
Following the film, we welcome you to stay for an informal discussion led by Geologist Christine Witkowski, Professor and Program Coordinator of Environmental Science at Middlesex Community College.
We hope you can join us for our final film of the 2018-2019 season. Please phone the Conservation District office for more information at 860-346-3282.
The Elements: An Annual Environmental Film Series, begun in 2015, is sponsored by the Connecticut River Coastal Conservation District, Middlesex Community College Environmental Science Program, The Rockfall Foundation, and Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts, College of the Environment, and College of Film and the Moving Image.
Anthropocene is about humanity's massive re-engineering of the planet, and a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene, describing a planet shaped more by mankind than by nature.
"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.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 surreal lithium evaporation ponds in the Atacama desert, the filmmakers have traversed the globe...to document evidence and experience of human planetary domination.
At the intersection of art and science, Anthropocene witnesses...a critical moment in geological history — bringing a provocative and unforgettable experience of our species' breadth and impact."
More information and a trailer can be found at https://theanthropocene.org/film/.
Following the film, we welcome you to stay for an informal discussion led by Geologist Christine Witkowski, Professor and Program Coordinator of Environmental Science at Middlesex Community College.
We hope you can join us for our final film of the 2018-2019 season. Please phone the Conservation District office for more information at 860-346-3282.
The Elements: An Annual Environmental Film Series, begun in 2015, is sponsored by the Connecticut River Coastal Conservation District, Middlesex Community College Environmental Science Program, The Rockfall Foundation, and Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts, College of the Environment, and College of Film and the Moving Image.
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