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Published: 30 September, 2010
by DAN CARRIER
YOU’VE got to love Dogwoof, the socially conscious film distributors based off Leather Lane in the south of Camden.
How lucky are we to have such a team based in our hood?
Their latest apocalyptic indie offering will scare the living daylights out of you, and, as well as having a hard-hitting political message, it is also a study in obsession.
It features an eco-soothsayer who knows his onions. And while it’s easy to curl up under your duvet and try to ignore the doomsday message being relayed, it is actually so frightening it’s the cinematic equivalent of your loved one pulling back the covers on a Sunday morning and tipping a bucket of ice cold water over you.
It stars Michael Ruppert, an investigative journalist. This film follows his work as he considers just how pressing the issues around climate change really are.
He isn’t simply saying, go easy on the short car journeys and recycle those copies of the New Journal, he lays bare how the very roots of a capitalist system invariably leads to a form of unsustainable consumption that is killing our world.
It is littered with phrases that will freak you out: “We are all collectively responsible for what may be the greatest preventable holocaust in the history of planet Earth – the whole economy is a pyramid scheme.
“I have been called a conspiracy theorist but I don’t deal in conspiracy theory, I deal in conspiracy fact. Unlike the Great Depression, we do not have infinite resources.
“Evolve or perish, grow up or die. We have to believe, not hope or pray, that there is a way out of this and we have to find it.”
Minimally shot, it only makes the message Ruppert is desperate to share all the more haunting. Dogwoof have previously brought us The Vanishing of the Bees and H2Oil, two very able eco-docs, and this further adds to their cannon.