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February 2010
| A stunning visual portrayal of our fragile Earth A film by award-winning aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Narrated by Glen Close. Original music score by Armand Amar, recorded with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and the Shanghai Percussion Ensemble. | ||||||||
Sunday 28 February at 6.00 pm (NB Please note starting time) At Labia on Orange Book with Labia at 021 424 5927 Ticket R40. A glass of Flagstone wine or fruit juice served after the screening. Running time 118 minutes If there is one film about Planet Earth that you should see this year, it is Home. Released internationally in 87 countries on World Environment Day 5 June 2009. “It's too late to be a pessimist!” Six billion human beings (and zillions of other life forms) call this planet “Home”. This visually dramatic film reflects our planet’s fragile state in stunning high definition from a bird’s eye view. Arthus-Bertrand brings us unique footage from 54 countries to share with us the beauty and wonder of our planet. But over the past 60 years – a single lifetime – the Earth has been more radically changed than by all previous generations of humanity. Yet it is not too late to reverse the trend, to become aware of the full extent of our responsibility for the earth’s resources and riches for our mutual future benefit. | ||||||||
Yann Arthus-Bertrand is perhaps the best known aerial photographer on the planet. He has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide of his seminal photo essay Earth from Above, a decade-spanning attempt to photograph all the vistas of the planet from the sky, whether by helicopter, hot air balloon, or anything else that flies. With photography, Yann Arthus-Bertrand has captured the beauty of the Earth. Through video and film, his projects bind together ecology and humanism. For him, it's all about living together. Home is the first movie by Arthus Bertrand. He got the idea of making it moved by the impact Al Gore’s film had since its release. "When I invited Al Gore to show his film, An Inconvenient Truth, to the French Parliament, I realised just how much impact a movie could have, even more than a TV program. I saw how moved the audience was—to tears in some cases—and I said to myself that a feature film was an excellent way of reaching people," he said in an interview. Arthus-Bertrand seeks to uncover the story behind the landscape, not just create a pretty picture. Indeed, his subjects are not always photogenic -- his prints show poverty and strife as well as green tranquility; and everywhere in his work is the encroaching hand of humanity and its enterprise. He keeps close track of the coordinates of his locations, so other photographers may track their progress over time. Some background information:
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