2012 · documentary
Chasing Ice
Directed by Jeff Orlowski1h 14m2012
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.
Our read: Chasing Ice (2012) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- epic-stakes
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