All are welcome to attend a free screning of 'The Age of Stupid' at 8pm, AM 150, Arts Millenium Building, NUIG.
'The Age of Stupid' is the new cinema documentary from the Director of 'McLibel' and the Producer of the Oscar-winning 'One Day in September'. This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching 'archive' footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance?
SOME REVIEWS:
The Guardian (UK) : "The first successful dramatisation of climate change to reach the big screen."
Nature : "[The film] largely avoids talking heads, lengthy BBC-accented voiceovers, and other stifling staples of many documentaries. The pace is taut and the portraits intimate and playful, with an eye for gem-like moments of absurdity."
The Sun (UK) : "Predictions from exctinction movie already happening in real life."
The Ecologist magazine : “Fantastic. Knocks spots off An Inconvenient Truth”
New Statesman : “Anything but a good-guys-versus-bad-guys polemic. It is angry but nuanced, despairing but strangely motivating.”
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Dr. Kieran Hickey (Department of Geography/ECI (Environmental Change Institute NUI Galway) will give an introduction to the film and will take some questions questions from the audience.
His Biography (taken from NUIG website)
From Cahir, Co. Tipperary, a town dominated by a castle, abbey, the River Suir and the Galty Mountains, it was impossible to grow up without an interest in all things geographical and to know and understand the environment of the town and its hinterland from a physical and human perspective. One of the best ways to know your own place is to explore other places and come back to it with a fresh perspective and gain new insights. As a result I have studied and worked in Armagh, Cork, Coventry, Kilkenny, Maynooth, Oxford and Scotland. I have been fortunate to have travelled to many European countries including Iceland, Slovenia and Turkey aswell as Eqypt, Dubai, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Cuba, the USA and Canada.
My main research focus falls under the heading of historical and current climate change and global warming. Particular foci have been on patterns of storminess, historical and contemporary climate change in Ireland and elsewhere, coastal vulnerability to climate and sea-level rise in Ireland and elsewhere and the natural and cultural history of wolves in Ireland.
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Dr. Kieran Hickey on RTÉ
The Guardian (UK) : "The first successful dramatisation of climate change to reach the big screen."
Not quite.
The film "Soylent Green" in 1973 dealt with a similar overcrowded and overheated world set in 2022.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
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letting more people know of your event and wrote a little piece about these strange times...
spreading word
http://www.politics.ie/environment/106275-another-nail-...24841
commentry
S21-S22 : A world awakening out of its "age of stupid"
http://www.politics.ie/environment/106415-s21-s22-world....html
+ imc-ie
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/93749&comment_limit=0&c...60015
good channel 4 news piece about the film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPIY7SrKdsg
regards
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age of stupid - film review
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