Speeches from 40 years ago by Harvard professor inspire UN Global Compact film and exhibition on climate crisis
In the 1980s, at a time when socio-environmental guidelines were not yet as relevant as they are today, Harvard professor Carl Sagan warned of the risks of global warming and humanity’s leading role in environmental degradation.
He said, at the time, that just one degree of change in the temperature of the planet would be enough to produce widespread suffering. Yes, he was right.
Forty years have passed and excerpts from his speeches are the guiding thread of the narrative of the new film signed by the UN Global Compact, created by the AlmapBBDO agency and Boiler Filmes.
Using Carl’s original voiceover, the film features an installation of wild animal automatons, made manually by Argentine artist Pablo Lavezzari and moved by the magnetic tape of an old tape recorder.
The soundtrack accompanies the words of Carl “When The Land Meets The Sea”, created with a single loop of magnetic tape by Amulets, artist known as The Tape Wizard.
The installation was built at the Bolsa de Arte gallery, in So Paulo, the same place that hosted an exhibition for guests. The idea is that the installation will be shown in international galleries from the second semester onwards.
The objective of the campaign is to provoke reflection on an issue that was already urgent in the past and which, today, is a true emergency. The idea is to invite companies to commit to the objectives and goals of the UN Global Compact, created in 2000 and responsible for leading the business front in favor of humanitarian attitudes.
