Chasing Ice

Chasing Ice

A film by Jeff Orlowski
Starring James Balog, Svavar Jonatansson and Adam LeWinter

As the debate polarizes America and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally, Balog finds himself at the end of his tether. Battling untested technology in subzero conditions, he comes face to face with his own mortality.

It takes years for Balog to see the fruits of his labor. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Chasing Ice depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet.

In the spring of 2005, National Geographic photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change and a cynic about the nature of academic research. But that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk.

Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.

Chasing Ice’s raison d’etre is easily the stunning EIS photography of glaciers receding worldwide. —Justin Chang, Variety

Chasing Ice conveys the visual richness of Balog’s work, where an astounding variety of shape, color, and translucency makes ice seem like a worthy object for a career, even if its disappearance weren’t so closely linked to humanity’s fate. —John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter

 

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Technical Information

Production Year
2012
Country of Production
USA
Language
English
Running Time
76 mins

Past Screenings (since April 2nd, 2009)

Sunday, Dec 9, 2012
11:30am
Saturday, Dec 8, 2012
11:30am
Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012
5:30pm
Monday, Dec 3, 2012
5:30pm
Sunday, Dec 2, 2012
5:30pm · 11:30am
Saturday, Dec 1, 2012
5:30pm · 11:30am
Friday, Nov 30, 2012
5:30pm
Sunday, Nov 25, 2012
11:30am
Saturday, Nov 24, 2012
11:30am
Thursday, Nov 22, 2012
7:20pm
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2012
7:20pm
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012
7:20pm
Monday, Nov 19, 2012
7:20pm
Sunday, Nov 18, 2012
7:20pm · 2:55pm
Saturday, Nov 17, 2012
7:19pm · 2:55pm
Friday, Nov 16, 2012
7:20pm · 2:55pm

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