Have you ever thought about how the world is heading towards its end due to the climate crisis? Have you ever felt like you’re the only person who ever came to this realization? You might feel alone right now, but trust me when I say that there are others out there who feel the same way.
Meet your concerns in Feeling the Apocalypse (Chen Sing Yap, 2022). This documentary opens with a stop-motion of a colored sketch of leaves falling off of a tree. This animated cinematography is made from the artistic hands of Rowan Mikolic-O’Rourke and Ruby Davies. Their nostalgia-filled image and video archive is crafted into artistic pieces that will make you want to swim in it as you relive your childhood. Part of its artistic charm are compiled from hand drawings made out of crayon, stop-motion sketches, and cutouts of news archives. Symbolically, this is an attempt to introduce fear in the form of a friendly figure so that you can watch this documentary all the way to the end, akin to being sent to sleep with bedtime stories by your parents when in truth, this is the harsh reality your earth is facing.
Loaded with excerpts from an interview with Anderson Todd, as the director, Yap takes you places to grasp and confront the harsh reality through a monologue that is delivered throughout the screening of Feeling the Apocalypse (2022). The monologue itself is based from the inner thoughts of a psychotherapist struggling through climate anxieties. In the midst of everything, the psychotherapist explores what it means to live in a dying world.
The film invites us to ponder on what is actually happening right now. Global warming, greenhouse effect, and climate change are fuels to those anxieties. Will earth be left to ruin by the hands of humans? However true or untrue it might be, let’s stay focused on nurturing and co-existing with one another.
Dive in and face your fears in Feeling the Apocalypse (2022). The film is selected for Perspektif and Spektrum Festival Film Dokumenter 2023 (Ahmad Radhitya Alam) (Vanis/Adinta)
Detail Film
Feeling the Apocalypse
Chen Sing Yap | 7 Min | 2022 | Canada | Color | 17+
Jadwal Tayang
12.05 | Bioskop Sonobudoyo | 15.00 WIB
12.06 | Auditorium IFI-LIP | 19.00 WIB
12.07 | Gedung ex Bioskop Permata | 15.00 WIB
12.08 | Auditorium IFI-LIP | 13.00 WIB
