The Design Series | Design Flicks - Anthropocene

We have teamed up with Richard Sowada, curator of Melbourne Design Week Film Festival, to bring us a sequence of international films that explore people, culture, the built environment and the way people operate in it.

The films dive deeply into the struggle between people and their environment, global forces that shape the way we live and the ongoing dilemma between the build and the natural. The journey is not just through design but the ideas and inspirations that synthesise great social, technological and political change.

The films will be live screened via VIMEO and will play through as if you are at the cinema. Once registered via Eventbrite you will be sent a link to your email account with VIMEO login details. This will be sent on the day of the screening.

Thursday 18 June, 2020, 8:00pm start
Design Flicks #04
Anthropocene - The Human Epoch
Director - Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky & Nicholas de Pencier
Country - Canada
Year - 2019 | Duration - 87 mins
Festival Appearances/Awards;
- Toronto International Film Festival - Official selection
- Sundance Film Festival - Official selection
- Berlin Film Festival - Official selection

The third in Baichwal and Burtynsky’s epic environmental trilogy that includes Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013), Anthropocene is both magnificent in scope and frightening in subject - A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet. 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 using high-end production values and state of the art camera techniques to document the evidence and experience of human planetary domination.

At the intersection of art and science, the international film festival favourite compels us to consider our position, our power, our impact and our responsibility.

Enjoy the film!

Bronwyn Adams
Project Manager - City Activation

The Design Series is presented by The Metropolitan in partnership with the AIA, AILA, EA, PIA, SCCA & PLA

The Metropolitan is an initiative of SunCentral