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Purple

2017 · 60 min

A slow, immersive meditation on climate change that feels like watching a dreamlike archive of the planet's fragile beauty and damage.

Directed by: John Akomfrah
Genres: Documentary

Overview: Purple is a six-channel video installation addressing climate change, human communities and the wilderness. At a time when greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are at their highest levels in history, with people experiencing the significant impacts of climate change, including shifting weather patterns, rising sea levels, and more extreme weather events, Akomfrah’s Purple brings a multitude of ideas into conversation. These include animal extinctions, the memory of ice, the plastic ocean and global warming. Akomfrah has combined hundreds of hours of archival footage with newly shot film and a hypnotic sound score to produce the video installation.

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Directed by: John Akomfrah
Genres: Documentary

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: environment
nature
memory
death
survival
Places: wilderness
sea
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
nonlinear
anthology
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Horror	2
Humour	0
Realism	8
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Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: John Akomfrah
Cinematography: Dewald Aukema
Runtime: 60 min
Country: United Kingdom

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