In case you haven’t heard, “Chasing Ice” is the next big thing in environmental film.
The documentary follows James Balog in his quest to photograph and document the changing glacial landscape in the arctic due to climate change. Balog is the founder of Extreme Ice Survey, a long-term project founded in 2007 with goals similar to the movie.
If you remember the glacier photographs from Al Gore’s presentation in “An Inconvenient Truth,” this movie has the same jarring visual impact, but on an exponentially greater scale. In the trailer, Balog says that the project’s initial aim was to put out 25 cameras and take shots every hour for three years.
The movie is showing in select theaters, and you can catch it at the Cinemapolis beginning December 21.