Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress is a thought-provoking documentary that delves into the negative consequences of progress and development. It takes viewers on a journey through various historical events and explores the impact of industrialization, war, and environmental degradation on the world. The film discusses topics such as the coal mining industry, deforestation, the atomic energy, and the plastic contamination crisis. It also highlights the importance of renewable energy sources like solar power in combating global warming. Through interviews, research, and archival footage, Breakpoint reveals the hidden costs of progress and urges viewers to reevaluate the choices we make in order to create a sustainable future.
arc of the natural world’s evolution from the primeval environment to the Anthropocene and back again premiered in program Death is Green at the Whitney Museum of American Art part of Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016 organized by Chrissie Iles
Along the tide-swept shores and marshlands of a once-major city, people have gone but the artifacts of their era linger: rusted vehicles, heaped tires, crushed cement and glass. Old structures fall. Mechanical observation systems glitch. Wildlife roam these derelict lands anew. In the absence of human perception linear progressions falter and time moves in loops and skips, unpredictable. And over geologic time, even our most impervious creations will degrade and cease to exist.
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