ResponsAbility: Screening of Swedish documentary “The Planet”

The visual style will unlock the alienated attitude many people have built up in relation to the subject: ”Please, not another bloody Climate Doomsday film!” The Planet is about much more than climate change - its about the Earth as a whole, it's about the overall global changes we are experiencing right now.

The challenge have been to create a new, fresh style to convey our story about a subject on which most people are more or less unaware - even though they certainly need to be more aware of it. The visual tone will from the very beginning turn the audience away from old perspectives on the problems in question. We are therefore using a lot of humour, visually provocative material, new rhythms, imaginative twists and turns, animation, short inserts conveyed with the help of the aesthetic of advertising, new and old archive material and our own striking nature photography.

Is it true that the Earth is a system disrupted beyond its normal limits? Are people the underlying cause of the changes? Can our activities really affect the Earth's systems? Is it really true that temperatures have risen and will continue to rise? That we should expect abrupt changes in the system? That natural disasters will become ever more frequent and dangerous? That the climate refugee will become the most common of all refugees? And if all this is true, what will the world look like in the future? Can we affect developments, or should we just adapt ourselves to this new world?

To find these answers we have been seeking out some of the world's leading experts in areas of interest. We have traveled to the places on Earth where the signs of global change are most apparent, and where supposedly proof may be found. We have also been into contact with people, who in one way or another can provide some tangible ideas about an imagined future - those who have been affected or will be affected.

Sponsored by Fishman Productions

Director/s 
Linus Torell   
Michael Stenberg   
Johan Söderberg   

Cast & credits
Screenwriters: Michael Stenberg, Jan Röed
Director of photography: Jan Röed and others
Music: Johan Söderberg
Editor: Johan Söderberg
Sound: Jonas Goldmann, Ragnar Samuelsson and others
Producers: Michael Stenberg, Jonas Kellagher
Produced by: Charon Film AB in cooperation with Sveriges Television (SVT), Videomaker A/S with support from Norwegian Film Fund, Nordic Film & TV Fund, NRK, DR, Swedish Film Institute/Per Nielsen

Screening details
Colour
84 min
English dialogue

Location:
Billy Wilder Theater
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tel: 310.443.7000

Time:
May 8 at 7pm

Hammer Screenings are free and seating is first come, first served.

To register please send an email to: beyondblond4@foreign.ministry.se

For further information  please visit Hammer Museum

New Website for Swedish Global Change Campaign 
 
On February 17, the website The Planet Infact was launched in English. The Planet – a science portal, a TV series on prime time and a movie – turned out to be one of the most successful Swedish campaigns ever in communicating global change issues.
 
The campaign is a result of a unique, well-timed and thoroughly organized collaboration between a film-production company, a science portal and the Swedish public service television.

Read more on www.expertsvar.se and www.forskning.se/theplanet