An A.D. White Professors-at-Large keynote event

CHASING TIME (2024)
Tuesday, October 28
6:00pm · Cornell Cinema
40 min. short documentary, followed by Q&A discussion with James Balog, A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell
Free tickets: bit.ly/ChasingTime_CornellCinema2025
Free popcorn and drink included!
Open to all.
Cosponsored by the College Scholar Program and Dept. of Sociology.
Part of Cornell Cinema’s “Campus Collaborations” series.

About the film: The team behind Chasing Ice reunites for one final mission to close out the Extreme Ice Survey project: an unprecedented 15-year photographic record of the melting glaciers.

If a single photo can inspire change, how influential are a million images? Over the course of the 15-year Extreme Ice Survey project, visionary environmental photographer James Balog and his team brought some of the world’s first and most compelling visual evidence of climate change to the global stage as he depicted the rapid melting of glaciers around the world. Thoughtfully helmed by acclaimed director Jeff Orlowski-Yang (Chasing Ice, Chasing Coral, The Social Dilemma) and first-time filmmaker Sarah Keo, Chasing Time is a meditative exploration of time and mortality, following James and his crew as they bring the decades-long project to a close, cataloging more than one million images in the process.

The short documentary reunites James and the Emmy-award-winning team behind Chasing Ice to capture the end of the epic undertaking and spotlight the power of an intergenerational effort to seed hope and inspire action toward a sustainable future. A beautiful tribute to the power of images and the importance of mentorship, the team examines the legacy their efforts have made on the world.