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Age of Stupid
Age of Stupid
“We could have saved ourselves, but we didn’t. It’s amazing. What state of mind were we in, to face extinction and simply shrug it off?” (from the film)
Are humans genetically programmed to deal only with immediate threats, the predator outside the cave or the enemy army across the plain, but not longer-term threats like climate change -- even if it may end the world as we know it? ‘Yes,’ according to current evidence, says Age of Stupid - hence the not too flattering title. One of the few documentaries of climate change that has become an international phenomenon, Age of Stupid is structured as a flashback from a future when it’s all over and the stupidity of our age is confirmed. Trying to help future inhabitants avoid making the same mistakes, Pete Postlethwaite sits in front of a camera which is also his computer screen and picks out images from Earth’s last decades. We visit Nigeria, where the discovery of oil only made local people poorer and left nature so polluted that fresh fish had to be washed with Omo before being cooked. We visit Iraqi refugee kids in Jordan, trying to establish a new life; a hurricane victim in New Orleans who lost everything; a couple in the lush British countryside struggling in vain against neighbors’ resistance to build a wind-power generator on their farm; a French mountaineer in his eighties who recalls when the glaciers of the Alps were within easy reach, instead of at the bottom of a canyon; and an Indian entrepreneur proud of launching India’s first budget airline. Director Franny Armstrong focuses on consumerism and gives striking figures about how much the earth’s resources could last if developed countries, especially the US, consume less. The film is like a last- resort call to humankind before it’s too late.
2008 Grierson Awards: Best Green Doc.
Sunchild Environmental Festival: First Prize
2009 Middle East Film Festival:Jury Special Mention
Birds Eye View Film Festival: Best Documentary
San Francisco Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
Vancouver Film Festival
About the Director
Franny Armstrong
British documentary filmmaker Franny
Armstrong is the owner of Spanner Films and
also a former drummer in an indie pop group, The
Band of Holy Joy. She directed McLibel (1998)
about the famous Mc Donald’s court case against
activists. Her other documentary films are
Drowned Out (2002) and Baked Alaska (2002).
Since 2004, she has been working on
Age of Stupid (2008).
SCREENINGS
| 14.02.2010 17:30 AFM Budak Caddebostan |
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| 20.02.2010 13:00 AFM Fitaş Salon 1 |
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OVERVIEW
- Director
- Franny Armstrong ()
- Screenplay
- Franny Armstrong ()
- Cast
- Pete Postlethwaite
- Alvin DuVernay
- Jeh Wadia
- Layefa Malemi
- Music
- Chris Brierley
- Production Co.
- Spanner Films
- Distributor
- Arts Alliance Media
- Cinematography
- Lawrence Gardner
- Editing
- David G. Hill
- Producer
- Lizzie Gillett
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