Scene from the film The Climate Experiment
Scene from the film The Climate Experiment
Scene from the film The Climate Experiment
Scene from the film The Climate Experiment

The Climate Experiment

Direction
Year 
2018
Country
  • Sweden
  • China
  • France
  • Morocco
  • Norway
  • United States
Runtime
58min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

A film about the Swedish artist duo Bigert & Bergström’s climate-related art, which for three decades has been inspired by research on the effects of climate on humanity and vice versa.

The Climate Experiment tells the story of the growing realization of our own role in the changing climate. Our interference in the atmospheric cocktail could be described as the greatest experiment in human history. An experiment whose outcome is highly uncertain.

The film presents the lurking awareness of our own role in the change of climate. The title refers to the kind of research that challenged the conception of nature as an inexhaustible resource, but also to the artists’ own work with various geo-engineering projects, in which they try to deal with the effects of an increasingly heated atmosphere.

In the film we follow Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström during the last year’s research journeys, major exhibitions, inaugurals of public works and meetings with journalists, environmental historians and climate researchers. Can the artist be a social-minded researcher? Can contemporary art draw attention to problems in new ways and thus affect public opinion? The movie is an attempt to answer these questions.

Details

  • Original Title
    The Climate Experiment
  • Direction
  • Cinematography
    Lars Siltberg
  • Editing
    Kristofer Nordin
  • Music
    Carl Michael von Hausswolff, David Österberg, Anna von Hausswolff
  • Sound
    Carl Michael von Hausswolff, David Österberg
  • Runtime
    58 min (46-90 min.)
  • Year
    2018
  • Country
    • Sweden
    • China
    • France
    • Morocco
    • Norway
    • United States
  • Format
    • Colour
  • Production
  • Festivals
    • Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
    • CPH:DOX
    • Metakino Festival Helsinki

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