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A case can be made that Nikolaus Geyrhalter is the most important living documentary filmmaker. As well, a case can be made that his latest film “Earth” (Erde) that opened today at the Anthology Film Archives in New York is his most important. As the film begins with a panoramic shot of the San Fernando Valley in California, the following words scroll across the screen: “Every day 60 million tons of surface soil are moved by rivers, wind and other forces of nature. Humans move 156 million tons of rock and soil per day, making humankind the most decisive geological factor of our time.” With this as a preface, Geyrhalter then takes us on a world tour of major excavation sites with closeups on the machinery and the women and men who operate them. On his last stop, he makes in Fort McMaster in Canada, he departs from his itinerary because the tar sands oil extraction bosses did not allow him to film there. However, in a perfect denouement to a film made to arouse public opinion against unbridled capitalist development, he escorts two Dene Indians whose land has been despoiled by fracking.
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