Chasing Ice

United States, Bolivia, Canada, France, Greenland, Iceland, Italy

2012

75 Min

Color

English

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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PROD Jeff Orlowski, Paula DuPré Pesmen, Jerry Aronson

CAST James Balog, Svavar Jonatansson, Adam LeWinter, Jeff Orlowski

MUSIC J. Ralph

Sundance (U.S. Documentary Competition): Cinematography Award, SXSW (Festival Favorites): Audience Award, San Francisco (Added Programs)

Synopsis

When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.

In this breathtakingly beautiful documentary, filmmaker Jeff Orlowski follows the indomitable photographer as he brings to life the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS)—a massive photography project that placed 30 cameras across three continents to gather visual evidence of the Earth’s melting ice. Chasing Ice tells the story of a visionary artist who, in facing his own mortality, bequeaths the magic of photography and the adventure of the expedition to a new generation and captures the most visible sign of climate change on the planet today. –Sundance Film Festival

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Matthew_Lucas

1Apr12

Stirring, visually arresting documentary follows James Balog, photographer and founder of the Extreme Ice Survey, who travels the globe documenting the staggering destruction of glaciers, providing visual proof of global warming and its devastating effect on the landscape. Powerful stuff, confronting the audience irrefutable visual evidence for a phenomenon often characterized by statistics and projections.