Nikolas Geyrhalter's documentary 'Earth' looks at the extreme ways in which humankind has reshaped the topography of the planet.
Whatever else can be said about the human race, no one can claim we’ve been idle. In fact, according to the completely fascinating, unexpectedly compelling documentary “Earth,” we move billions of tons of earth annually, making humanity a greater physical force on our planet than nature itself., responsible for 2005’s equally powerful “Our Daily Bread” and a big-picture filmmaker in more ways than one.
To achieve this, Geyrhalter visits seven sites of unimaginably massive invasions of Earth. He first shows us an otherworldly view of the location from the air, then explores it on ground level, and finally, and this is new for him, interviews people who make a living off this process. The no-frills interviews feature workers and supervisors simply standing and facing the camera. Their attitudes, here as elsewhere, are intriguingly ambivalent. They are aware of the environmental impact of what they do, but also take pride in it and feel if it wasn’t them doing it, it would be someone else.
One of Carrara’s laborers, who describes his zeal for his work as “a passion, an adrenaline rush,” nevertheless worries about the future.
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