As an introduction and to set the scene for our Thriving Sustainably event, there will be a showing of the climate change film ‘The Age of Stupid’ (in the film there’s an engineer working for an oil company who uses that phrase and says that’s what the last few decades of the 20th century will be remembered for).
The first showing will take place the evening before Thriving Sustainably (Friday, October 16th at 7.30pm at West Oxford Primary School). Chris Goodall, local author of influential books such as “How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individual’s Guide to Stopping Climate Change” and “Ten Technologies To Save The Planet” will be there to introduce the film and support the discussion as well as answer questions after the showing (if you can’t make it on Oct. 16th, another showing will take place on Thursday 29 October, 8pm at West Oxford Community Centre). Both showings are free – just turn up.

The Age of Stupid – Timings for the Evening

Welcome by Michael Soth
Introduction by Chris Goodall:
19:30 – 19:50
Film ‘The Age of Stupid’:
20:00 – 21:35
Break: 21:35 – 21:40
Discussion: 21:40 – 22:00

If you only want to watch the film, you are welcome to come in just before 8pm. If you do not want to join the (brief) discussion afterwards, you are welcome to leave at 21:35.

SYNOPSIS
‘The Age of Stupid’ is the new cinema documentary from the Director of ‘McLibel’ and the Producer of the Oscar-winning ‘One Day in September’. This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching ‘archive’ footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change while we had the chance?

FORMAT & LENGTH
Drama-documentary-animation.
92m25s. HD.

SUBJECT
Climate change, oil, war, politics, consumerism and human stupidity

STARRING
Pete Postlethwaite (drama)
Fernand Pareau, 82-year old French mountain guide (documentary)
Jeh Wadia, starting a low-cost airline in India (documentary)
Alvin DuVernay, Shell oil man who rescued 100 people after Hurricane Katrina (documentary)
Layefa Malemi, living in Shell’s most profitable oil region in Nigeria (documentary)
Jamila and Adnan Bayyoud, two Iraqi refugee kids trying to find their brother (documentary)
Piers Guy, a windfarm developer fighting the anti windfarm lobby in England (documentary)