SAT 30 May • Hackney and Tower Hamlets Friends of the Earth presents THE AGE OF STUPID (12A) 3.15 (UK 2009) dir. Fanny Armstrong 92m.
Pete Postlethwaite plays the only fictional character in this fascinating study of climate change set in the devastated world of 2055. As ‘The Archivist’, the last man on earth, he takes the audience through his salvaged news clips and interviews from the early 21st Century asking ‘why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?’. A passionate, urgent, and often terrifying documentary of what could be.
+ discussion with climate change activists
£6/£5 Concs
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