A sharp mix of portrait doc, landscape film and pointed activism, “Chasing Ice” centers on environmental photographer James Balog and his committed efforts to document climate change.
Directed by Jeff Orlowski, the film follows Balog as he sets up cameras in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska and Montana to use time-lapse imagery to chronicle shrinking glaciers for his Extreme Ice Survey. The sheer scale of the glaciers, some as tall as skyscrapers and as big as Manhattan, is difficult to comprehend, as are the efforts of Balog and his team to access them.
