My Planet.
Planet of the People
City:
Moscow
Cinemas:
Museon the Art Park
Dates:
1–4 August 2013
Partners:
My Planet Channel
CoolConnections
Museon The Art Park
Обратная сторона прогресса
Surviving progress
Country: Canada
Year: 2011
Directors: Harold Crooks, Mathieu Roy
Genre: documentary
Language: English, Portuguese
Translation: russian subtitles
Time: 1 hour 26 minutes
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Humanity's ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, A Short History Of Progress inspired SURVIVING PROGRESS, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by "progress traps" - alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. As pressure on the world's resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our globally-entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic progress trap? With potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who have probed our genes, our brains, and our social behaviour, this requiem to progress-as-usual also poses a challenge: to prove that making apes smarter isn't an evolutionary dead-end.
Awards and festivals:
Vancouver Critics Circle Award Nomination - Best Documentary
Images
Schedule:
3 August, Saturday