Material of the Future

Material of the Future
Directed by Vern Moen
Written by Vern Moen
Aaron Ganser
Narrated by Alec Baldwin
Music by Richard Swift
Release dates
  • 2012 (2012)
Running time
 41 minutes
Country United States

Material of the Future is an independent documentary film that explores humanity's current relationship with plastic, both its benefits and risks to the environment, science, culture, and human health. Directed by Vern Moen, member of the Plastiki voyage, the film had its premiere at the Friday Harbor Film Festival on November 7, 2014.[1] Originally, the film premiered in 2012 as part of the film Plastiki and the Material of the Future[2] but was subsequently separated into its own film.

Synopsis

Structured as vignetted scenes, the film, narrated by Alec Baldwin, follows no single storyline, but rather assembles a worldwide view from a variety of perspectives considering what the true value of plastic is. Covered topics include re-usable plastics, plastic pollution, plastic industry, controversies of plastic recycling, bioplastics, and plastics in human health. The film includes footage from Chinese recycling facilities, the world's largest plastics convention, the Los Angeles bag ban, heart replacement surgery, the Plasticarium in Brussels, and is interspersed with interviews from scientists, authors, artists, and environmentalists.[3]

The film is scored by Richard Swift with additional music from Baths and a previously unreleased track from Animal Collective.

Interviewees

References

  1. ↑ http://www.sanjuanjournal.com/entertainment/276770371.html
  2. ↑ http://www.mountainfilm.org/news/2012/05/01/mountainfilm-in-telluride-announces-world-premieres
  3. ↑ http://www.materialofthefuture.com/

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