An animated vision of mutating environment. ‘The world has become a dried out planet, where the growing of cotton, overexploited for economical reasons is the main cause of desertification. A saline desert covers acres of dried out land where strange salt trees appear. This phenomenon echoes an ecological disaster, the desertification of the Aral Sea.’ (SM)
Insights or vistas? Film and science have this much in common: they invite close reading, and cultivate the close-up. Then again, the smallest details often…