Chasing Ice - News

Telluride News: "Chasing ice, capturing climate change"

Chasing Ice — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:22:21 +0000

"Photographer James Balog has long been captivated by ice, a medium of limitless shape-shifting and surreal beauty that takes the form of crystalline sculptures and blocky landscapes, glittery crusts and all manner of otherworldly architecture."

Mountain Film Screens Chasing Ice

Chasing Ice — Wed, 23 May 2012 00:43:35 +0000

Screening Saturday May 26th at 3:30pm at Michael D. Palm Theatre

"In 2005, photographer James Balog set out on an audacious quest: to document the disappearance of glaciers by setting up time-lapse cameras around the world. With temperatures on the rise, his plan worked well as the cameras of his Extreme Ice Survery captured some of the biggest calving incidents ever. But award-winning Chasing Ice isn’t just about the glaciers, it also shows an artist at work. Balog, who has been coming to Mountainfilm for more than a decade, wrestles with a bad knee, faulty equipment and the existential question of how the collapse of glaciers is a harbinger of our own uncertain future."

To read more, visit: http://www.mountainfilm.org/film/chasing-ice

Jeff Orlowski interviewed by Jan Gilbert at Sundance London 2012

Chasing Ice — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:19:03 +0000

Chasing Ice - UK Distribution!

Chasing Ice — Sat, 05 May 2012 05:22:41 +0000

"Indie distributor Dogwoof has closed deals for UK distribution of two docs currently at Hot Docs, Chasing Ice and Call Me Kuchu."

Sundance London: Chasing Ice Review

Chasing Ice — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:40:10 +0000

"In Chasing Ice though, director Jeff Orlowski and Balog have created a highly compelling and visually striking argument as to the extent of the changes occurring on the planet today. Despite the film ending on something of a positive note, and with the strains of Scarlett Johansson singing ‘Before My Time’, as one leaves the cinema, mouth gaping from the awe-inspiring power of our natural landscapes, it is very hard not to shake the sickening feeling that we are in very, very serious trouble."

Cine-Vue on Chasing Ice

Chasing Ice — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:21:12 +0000

"One of the most highly anticipated films to feature in this year's inaugural Sundance London programme was the National Geographic-funded documentary Chasing Ice (2012)."

"Whilst An Inconvenient Truth (2006) may have been the film to push climate change into the public consciousness, Chasing Ice with its evocative and simplistic message will hopefully be the film to herald a much needed change in direction and promote some decisive action. Chasing Ice is a magical, yet horrifying film which both astounds and enlightens in equal measure."

RiverRun Film Festival announces 2012 awards

Chasing Ice — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:42:06 +0000

"The Kilplatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Audience award for Best Documentary went to "Chasing Ice," by Orlowski. Orlowski’s film captured incontrovertible proof of vanishing glaciers across the Arctic."

Hollywood reporter: Chasing Ice Audience Award at RiverRun

Chasing Ice — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:50:46 +0000

"Audience awards also were voted to Jeff Orlowski‘s documentary Chasing Ice, which captures melting glaciers in the Arctic..."

Chasing Ice San Francisco International Film Festival

Chasing Ice — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:00:58 +0000

"Featuring breathtaking displays of remote and beautiful landscapes that may never be seen again by human -- or any -- eyes, Chasing Ice chronicles the quest of photographer James Balog to create his project the Extreme Ice Survey. Like many, Balog was initially skeptical of the existence of climate change. But, after researching the changing state of Earth's melting glaciers and then witnessing those changes firsthand through field studies, Balog became convinced of the realities and consequences of climate crisis. He then set out to record the ever-changing landscapes of the world's glacial terrain, with a photographer's eye for majestic vistas and incredible places. Filmmaker Jeff Orlowski observes the painstaking and obsessive methods Balog uses to capture images that serve both as valuable topographic documents and as uniquely beautiful contemplations of ice and water. Celebrating Earth's natural beauty while simultaneously serving as an environmental clarion call, Chasing Ice is a stunning and important document of our world in transition. Chasing Ice plays 7:15 pm, Thursday, May 3, Sundance Kabuki Cinemas. Balog is expected to attend. Oscilloscope Laboratories will open the film in theaters this fall."

For more information, visit: http://www.vimooz.com/film-festivals/san-francisco-international-film-festival/chasing-ice-john-dies-at-the-end-and-lola-versus-added-to-2012-san-francisco-international-film-festival-film-lineup

Chasing Ice WINS the Full Frame Nicholas School Environmental Award

Chasing Ice — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:06:34 +0000

"The Nicholas School Environmental Award was presented to “Chasing Ice” directed by Jeff Orlowski. In this film, scientific fact and aesthetic beauty merge in monumental and dramatic time-lapse photos illustrating global warming’s chilling ravages. The Nicholas School Environmental Award honors the film that best depicts the conflict between our drive to improve living standards through development and modernization, and the imperative to preserve both the natural environment that sustains us and the heritages that define us. Representatives from the Nicholas School of the Environment juried the Prize: Cindy Horn, Stephen Nemeth, Rebecca Patton, and Tom Rankin."