Finding the 90 minute documentary about mushrooms The Mushroom Speaks (2021-also reviewed) to be far more interesting then I was expecting,I decided to take a look at the other documentary titles in the WOW Film Festival line-up, leading to me taking a moment to reflect.
View on the film:
Walking along the miles of lakes in LA which have completely dried up, writer/director Emmett Brennan grows interviews/location footage and news reports with animation, with the brief uses of 2D animation being cleverly used by Brennan to go under the ground, and visualize what is being discussed.
Running across the dry land with hand-held shots, Brennan displays in an excellent unvarnished manner the impact of climate change on the land, with stark wide-shots capturing the damage that has been done to nature.
Whilst the subject offers the chance to lay out a doomsday scenario, Brennan instead searches for the signs of hope about turning the tide, with excellent, in-depth interviews with those using inventive ways to heal the reflection of the climate in the water.
View on the film:
Walking along the miles of lakes in LA which have completely dried up, writer/director Emmett Brennan grows interviews/location footage and news reports with animation, with the brief uses of 2D animation being cleverly used by Brennan to go under the ground, and visualize what is being discussed.
Running across the dry land with hand-held shots, Brennan displays in an excellent unvarnished manner the impact of climate change on the land, with stark wide-shots capturing the damage that has been done to nature.
Whilst the subject offers the chance to lay out a doomsday scenario, Brennan instead searches for the signs of hope about turning the tide, with excellent, in-depth interviews with those using inventive ways to heal the reflection of the climate in the water.