Earth Day at the Little Art

Home

On Earth Day, Sunday, April 22 at 4 PM, the Little Art Theatre will present a free screening of the Yann Arthus Bertrand film, HOME. This documentary shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet.

The film is not new. It was originally released simultaneously on June 5, 2009, in cinemas across the globe, on DVD, Blu-ray, television, and on You Tube, opening in 181 countries. “HOME was conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being. For this purpose HOME needs to be free.” A French multinational holding company financed the film and EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because HOME is a non-profit film.

The film is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on Earth. Taking over eighteen months to complete, director Yann Arthus-Bertrand and a camera man, a camera engineer and a pilot flew in a small helicopter through various regions in over fifty countries. The filming was done using high-definition "Cineflex" cameras which were suspended from a gyro-stabilized sphere from rails on the base of the helicopter. These cameras, originally manufactured for army firing equipment, reduce vibrations helping to capture smooth images, which appear as if they had been filmed from crane arms or dollies. After almost every flight, recordings were immediately checked to ensure they were usable. After filming was complete, Bertrand and his crew had over 488 hours of footage to edit.

And the results are astonishing visual images of the planet which are stunningly viewed on the big screen. Although the narrative by Glen Close may not be a new message, claiming to show the “awful truths” regarding our impact on the Earth, there is a positive conclusion, which features what we are doing now to combat and reverse it.

The Green Environmental Coalition is sponsoring this free screening in the hopes that this film will allow you to actually see the planet Earth, our Home, from a global and ecological perspective- one that emphasizes how all organisms and the Earth are linked in a delicate but crucial natural balance with each other, and how no organism can be self-sufficient.

This Earth Day, plan to join us at the Little Art Theatre for the screening of HOME. You won’t be disappointed. This is the final film in the Little Art Theatre's Environmental Film Series.