From Facets Multimedia:

50% of proceeds from this $12 virtual screening will go to help support Facts Multimedia during its closure. This screening is available from April 17 through May 1.

Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans, with shovels, excavators, and dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Our Daily Bread) documents these massive feats of engineering and manpower, with his visual flair and mastery of composition. In this remarkable documentary, he interviews the workers involved in these undertakings, probing their thoughts about their work and its impact on the environment, landscapes, and economies.

In seven locations in North America and Europe, we observe miners, engineers and foremen at work and Geyrhalter is able to find a perfect balance between the overwhelmingly large scale of the projects themselves and the lives of the individuals helping to realize them. They are caught between awe at the magnitude of their efforts and alarm at the ecological damage being inflicted.

Earth casts its glance widely (from California and Alberta to Austria, Hungary, Italy, Spain, and Germany) to depict the myriad of ways that human beings across the globe transform their natural environments. Geyrhalter has made a film that ponders the question of how much earth has to make room for our demanding lifestyle.

This thought-provoking environmental film is the textbook way to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, April 22.

Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria, 2019, 115 mins. In English, German, Hungarian, Italian and Spanish with English subtitles.