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Earth

Dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter / 2019 / 115 min.

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- "Despite its apocalyptic visions, it feels curiously optimistic because Geyrhalter hasn’t given up on us.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
In honor of Earth Day's 50th Anniversary, join us to see this critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary.
Earth was filmed at seven locations where humans are transforming the planet on a grand scale: Entire mountains being moved in California, a tunnel being sliced through rock at the Brenner Pass, an open-cast mine in Hungary, the world-famous Carrara marble quarry in Italy, a copper mine in Spain, the salt mine used to store radioactive waste in Wolfenbüttel and a Northern Canadian tar sands site where the destruction of indigenous lands threatens local communities. Geyrhalter contrasts these large scale projects with interviews with the individuals helping to realize them to highlight our fraught struggles for and against the planet.
This is no longer available to see via DCTV's Virtual Cinema.
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DCTV is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, with the support of Council Member Margaret Chin. DCTV is also supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. DCTV is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. DCTV is supported by the Manhattan Borough President, Gale Brewer.


