
'National Geographic' photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In 'Chasing Ice,' we follow Balog across the Arctic as he deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. Balog's hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motio... (Full plot summary below)
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'National Geographic' photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In 'Chasing Ice,' we follow Balog across the Arctic as he deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. Balog's hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Traveling with a young team of adventurers by helicopter, canoe and dog sled across three continents, Balog risks his career and his well-being in pursuit of the biggest story in human history.
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| New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThis amazingly beautiful, and amazingly frightening, documentary captures the immediacy of what climate change is doing to the Arctic landscape. |
| Sydney Morning HeraldBrad Newsome[A] spectacular but depressing documentary. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin Covert"Chasing Ice" is a grand adventure, a visual amazement and a powerful warning. |
| ABC Radio (Australia)Matt NealOrlowski's documentary is brilliant because of the wondrous way it shows a worldwide story and a personal one at the same time. |
| sbs.com.auSimon FosterLess a didactic 'message-movie' than a study of one man's steely determination, the debut helmer directs with a sure hand and no-frills aesthetic. |
| Boston PhoenixGerald PearyHorrific and even tearful: mighty glaciers eroding, collapsing before our eyes, sending melting ice and waters southward. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole Smithey[VIDEO ESSAY] ...renders absolute proof of global warming a.k.a. climate change. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. Means"Chasing Ice" is that movie that every environmentally conscious person has been waiting for, if only to show their right-wing relatives who parrot the standard oil-industry-funded line that "the science is still uncertain." |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelDuane DudekWhile skeptics continue to doubt global warming is a man-made phenomenon - Rush Limbaugh called warnings about it "garbage science" - "Chasing Ice" leaves little doubt it is occurring. |
| NPRMark JenkinsIn Hollywood these days, such epic transformations are rendered with computers and called "morphing." Offering a lesson both to filmmakers and climate-change deniers, Chasing Ice demonstrates how much more powerful it is to capture the real thing. |