Small glacier, big message

ONLY screening twice across Australia, documentary film Not Ok will be shown at Ballarat Trades Hall on Thursday, 5 December from 7.30pm.

Initially created in 2017 by American anthropologists, Associate Professor Cymene Howe and Professor Dominic Boyer, and filmmaker Ragnar Hansson, the movie follows Icelanders, delving into the significance of the gradual loss of one of the country’s smallest known glaciers named Ok.

With Associate Professor Howe and Professor Boyer at the screening for a question and answer session afterwards, Ballarat Trades Hall’s Events Coordinator, Rex Hardware said his team supports a range of social justice events.

“We have done since our committee was formed in 1856, so we have a very long history of supporting things like that,” he said.

“We think climate change is something that is absolutely essential to be brought to people’s attention in any information.”

With researchers predicting all of Iceland’s glaciers will cease to exist by 2200, Not Ok includes conversations with citizens, farmers and leading Icelandic figures including scientists, artists and politicians. It depicts the emotional, human response to the ever-changing climate.