THE AGE OF STUPID - Why didn't we save ourselves ...
The Age of Stupid
Franny Armstrong, Great Britain, 2009
89 min
KINODVOR
Premiere on 12th of January 2010 at 7:15 P.M.
From 13th of January the film is screened in Small Hall (Mala dvorana).
Most prominently film of the future of the planet after An Inconvenient Truth.
Directed by Franny Armstrong
Scenario Franny Armstrong
Photo Lawrence Gardner, Franny Armstrong
Chris Brierley music, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Dragnerve, The Band of Holy Joy
Film mounting David G. Hill
Production Lizzie Gillet
Plays Pete Postlethwaite
Festivals, awards nomination for the documentary prize at the British Independent Film
Why didn't we save ourselves when we had the chance?
Projection will be followed by round table discussion on the results of the Copenhagen conference, to be attended by Lydia Živčič (Focus), Vida Ogorelec Wagner (Umanotera) and Jan Peloza (Youth Association Without Excuse).
Trailers
portrait of the author
Franny Armstrong is born in 1972 in London Degree in zoology and then in the second half of the nineties fully engaged and devoted to documentary film. In activist circles, it boasts the status herojinje and one of the most important filmmakers. This reputation has got mainly McLibel film, filmed between 1997 and 2005 in which the harvesting of the McDonald's Corporation. British Film Institute recently ranked the film at the prestigious list of "ten documentaries that changed the world". Her films has so far mirror for more than 56 million people.
This ambitious documentary/drama/animation hybrid stars Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, asking the question: "Why didn't we stop climate change when we still had the chance?" He looks back on footage of real people around the world in the years leading up to 2015 before runaway climate change took place. Written by Adela Pickles
The Age Of Stupid is the documentary-drama-animation hybrid from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out) and Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek (One Day In September, Live Forever, In the Shadow of the Moon).
Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off, The Usual Suspects) stars as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055. He watches 'archive' footage from 2008 and asks: Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Runaway climate change has ravaged the planet by 2055. Pete plays the founder of The Global Archive, a storage facility located in the (now melted) Arctic, preserving all of humanity's achievements in the hope that the planet might one day be habitable again. Or that intelligent life may arrive and make use of all that weve achieved. He pulls together clips of archive news and documentary from 1950-2008 to build a message showing what went wrong and why. He focuses on six human stories:
- Alvin DuVernay, is a paleontogolist helping Shell find more oil off the coast of New Orleans. He also rescued more than 100 people after Hurricane Katrina, which, by 2055, is well known as one of the first major climate change events.
- Jeh Wadia in Mumbai aims to start-up a new low-cost airline and gets a million Indians flying.
- Layefa Malemi lives in absolute poverty in a small village in Nigeria from which Shell extracts tens of millions of dollars worth of oil every week. She dreams of becoming a doctor, but must fish in the oil-infested waters for four years to raise the funds.
- Jamila Bayyoud, aged 8, is an Iraqi refugee living on the streets of Jordan after her home was destroyed - and father killed - during the US-led invasion of 2003. Shes trying to help her elder brother make it across the border to safety.
- Piers Guy is a windfarm developer from Cornwall fighting the NIMBYs of Middle England.
- 82-year-old French mountain guide Fernand Pareau has witnessed his beloved Alpine glaciers melt by 150 metres.
The film doesn't use statistics or predictions to show the affects and causes of climate change, we're at the stage where it can just honestly show peoples' stories and the increasingly facile dilemmas of modern life to convey how we're walking into serious problems.
It is really powerful, it's one of those rare moments where after the film ends you just stay silently frozen to your seat in awe. The lush graphics, the excellent acting by Pete and the reality of the stories makes this film, as cliché as it is, totally unmissable.
Those who don't like this film I can only conclude are just scared, scared that if they're wrong they will be catastrophically wrong and live in such a way selfish way in which they can only feel threatened by the change needed to be more climate considerate in their lives.
Kinodvor
Directions
Address and place of your departure point (point A)
and destination point, Kolodvorska 13, Ljubljana (point B)
Franny Armstrong, Great Britain, 2009
89 min
KINODVOR
Premiere on 12th of January 2010 at 7:15 P.M.
From 13th of January the film is screened in Small Hall (Mala dvorana).
Most prominently film of the future of the planet after An Inconvenient Truth.
Directed by Franny Armstrong
Scenario Franny Armstrong
Photo Lawrence Gardner, Franny Armstrong
Chris Brierley music, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Dragnerve, The Band of Holy Joy
Film mounting David G. Hill
Production Lizzie Gillet
Plays Pete Postlethwaite
Festivals, awards nomination for the documentary prize at the British Independent Film
Why didn't we save ourselves when we had the chance?
Projection will be followed by round table discussion on the results of the Copenhagen conference, to be attended by Lydia Živčič (Focus), Vida Ogorelec Wagner (Umanotera) and Jan Peloza (Youth Association Without Excuse).
Trailers
portrait of the author
Franny Armstrong is born in 1972 in London Degree in zoology and then in the second half of the nineties fully engaged and devoted to documentary film. In activist circles, it boasts the status herojinje and one of the most important filmmakers. This reputation has got mainly McLibel film, filmed between 1997 and 2005 in which the harvesting of the McDonald's Corporation. British Film Institute recently ranked the film at the prestigious list of "ten documentaries that changed the world". Her films has so far mirror for more than 56 million people.
This ambitious documentary/drama/animation hybrid stars Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, asking the question: "Why didn't we stop climate change when we still had the chance?" He looks back on footage of real people around the world in the years leading up to 2015 before runaway climate change took place. Written by Adela Pickles
The Age Of Stupid is the documentary-drama-animation hybrid from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out) and Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek (One Day In September, Live Forever, In the Shadow of the Moon).
Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off, The Usual Suspects) stars as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055. He watches 'archive' footage from 2008 and asks: Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Runaway climate change has ravaged the planet by 2055. Pete plays the founder of The Global Archive, a storage facility located in the (now melted) Arctic, preserving all of humanity's achievements in the hope that the planet might one day be habitable again. Or that intelligent life may arrive and make use of all that weve achieved. He pulls together clips of archive news and documentary from 1950-2008 to build a message showing what went wrong and why. He focuses on six human stories:
- Alvin DuVernay, is a paleontogolist helping Shell find more oil off the coast of New Orleans. He also rescued more than 100 people after Hurricane Katrina, which, by 2055, is well known as one of the first major climate change events.
- Jeh Wadia in Mumbai aims to start-up a new low-cost airline and gets a million Indians flying.
- Layefa Malemi lives in absolute poverty in a small village in Nigeria from which Shell extracts tens of millions of dollars worth of oil every week. She dreams of becoming a doctor, but must fish in the oil-infested waters for four years to raise the funds.
- Jamila Bayyoud, aged 8, is an Iraqi refugee living on the streets of Jordan after her home was destroyed - and father killed - during the US-led invasion of 2003. Shes trying to help her elder brother make it across the border to safety.
- Piers Guy is a windfarm developer from Cornwall fighting the NIMBYs of Middle England.
- 82-year-old French mountain guide Fernand Pareau has witnessed his beloved Alpine glaciers melt by 150 metres.
The film doesn't use statistics or predictions to show the affects and causes of climate change, we're at the stage where it can just honestly show peoples' stories and the increasingly facile dilemmas of modern life to convey how we're walking into serious problems.
It is really powerful, it's one of those rare moments where after the film ends you just stay silently frozen to your seat in awe. The lush graphics, the excellent acting by Pete and the reality of the stories makes this film, as cliché as it is, totally unmissable.
Those who don't like this film I can only conclude are just scared, scared that if they're wrong they will be catastrophically wrong and live in such a way selfish way in which they can only feel threatened by the change needed to be more climate considerate in their lives.
Kinodvor
Directions
Address and place of your departure point (point A)
and destination point, Kolodvorska 13, Ljubljana (point B)