2020 season – postponed until further notice

In line with government advice Newcastle Film Society has decided to postpone the start of the 2020 season.

Anthropocene: the Human Epoch (2018 Canada)

Director: Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky
Starring:   Alicia Vikander
Genre:  Documentary
Duration:    87 mins

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch puts a frightening twist on the standard nature documentary. Rather than exalting the awesome beauty of landscapes or animals, it captures alarming ways in which that beauty has been disturbed. The movie takes its cues from the research of the Anthropocene Working Group, a team of scientists who in 2016 recommended a formal declaration of the end of Earth’s Holocene epoch, which began as many as 12,000 years ago. They argued that we are now in a new geologic phase, the Anthropocene epoch — a time when humans now change the Earth more than all the planet’s natural processes combined. The film hops from continent to continent to depict the scale of those disruptions, which at times have an almost science fiction quality.