Transition Chichester: Eco cinema
Following are a list of films that have been shown at the TC Eco Cinema.
Some are DVDs and are available for a showing on request.
Please contact secretary@transitionchichester.org if you would like to borrow one.
Film Library on DVD
– Our Daily Bread (2007)
Film about industrial farming
– Natural World: Earth Pilgrim (2008)
Spiritual journey into the landscape of Dartmoor, with Satish Kumar
– The History of Oil: Robert Newman (2008)
Classic stand-up humour about oil – still relevant and funny
– Food, Inc. (2009)
Film about factory farming
– Home (2009)
Spectacular aerial portrait of Planet Earth showing how our planet is critically ill, but hints that another future is possible
– H2Oil (2009)
What’s more important, water or oil? Stories of people on the front line of the global oil crisis
– The End of the Line (2009)
Fisheries and fishing
– In Transition (early Transition film)
From oil dependence to local resilience
– A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2010?)
Film about peak oil
– Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden
(2010)
Film about what happens when a traditional culture is replaced by western style education
– Gasland (2011)
Film about drilling for gas in the USA
– I Am (2011)
True story of how one man went from riches to rags and changed his life for the better
– The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Film which reveals how globalisation is fraying the fabric of our communities and accelerating climate change
– Voices of Transition (2012)
Film about practical solutions to environmental problems
– More than Honey (2012)
A film looking into the fascinating world of bees
– Planet Ocean (2012)
Film presented at Rio Climate Conference 2012
– My Stuff (2013)
Hilarious account of man who tries to live without stuff for a year
– In Transition 2 (shown 2013)
16 inspiring Transition stories from around the world
– Samsara (2013)
Non-verbal film shot across various parts of the world: sacred grounds, disaster areas, natural wonders
– Wasteland (2014?)
Account of art project on Brazilian landfill site
– Chasing Ice (shown 2014)
Multi-year visual record of world’s changing glaciers – spectacular
– Blood of the Amazon
Nicola Peel’s film about oil pollution in Amazon Basin
– Happy (shown 2015)
Feel good film about a quest for a happy life
– Symphony of the Soil (shown 2015)
Film about our use and misuse of soil in agriculture, highlights possibilities of healthy soil
– Demain (2015)
Positive solutions to climate crisis
– Cowspiracy (Shown 2015
Looks at effects of industrial cattle rearing on the planet
– Local Food Roots (Date?)
Chronicles history of local food
– Grow Your Own (shown 2015)
Comedy about people working on allotments
– An Autumn Diary (Shown 2016)
Film by local film-maker Philip Davidson about fracking
– Bikes vs Cars (shown 2016)
– An Inconvenient Sequel (2017)
Al Gore’s follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth
– Vanishing of the Bees (date not known)
Explains why bee population has decreased so alarmingly
– Ice and the Sky (Shown 2018)
Beautiful film showing how Claude Lorius discovered evidence deep in the ice which supports the theory of climate change
Films shown at Eco cinema which are available on-line
– Before the Flood (Shown 2018)
3-year journey made by Leonardo di Caprio interviewing people active in the climate movement
– Slowing Down Fast Fashion (Shown 2018)
Alex James looks at the effects of the fast fashion industry on the environment
– A Plastic Ocean (Shown 2018)
Explores the issue of plastic in our oceans and its effect on the marine ecology and our health
– Wetheuncivilised (Shown 2018)
A young married couple travel around the country for a year in search of a different life style less based on consumption.
– How to Change the World (Shown 2019)
Story of Greenpeace – stunning photography