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Chasing Ice
This film follows photographer James Balog’s multi-year record of the impacts of climate change on the Arctic.
This film follows photographer James Balog’s multi-year record of the impacts of climate change on the Arctic.
Margret Grebowicz argues that James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), in particular the time-lapse films of glaciers receding, presents a unique example of what Guy Debord calls the ”tautological” nature of spectacle, its capacity to serve as its own evidence at the same time as it becomes a mode of relation among people.