【影片簡介】逐冰之旅 Chasing Ice
【信念實踐】篇 Beliefs & Reliefs
逐冰之旅
Chasing Ice
美國 USA︱2011︱75 min︱Jeff ORLOWSKI
2012 加拿大Hot Docs國際紀錄片電影節觀眾票選獎
Audience Award, Hot Docs International Documentary Festival
2012 日舞影展最佳攝影獎
Excellence Cinematography Award, Sundance Film Festival
近來全球天災頻傳，專家學者眾說紛紜，大部分人相信此為溫室效應所造成，也有部分人士存疑，包含《國家地理雜誌》攝影師詹姆士．巴羅格（James BALOG）。詹姆士的冰河攝影專題是《國家地理雜誌》近五年來最受歡迎的企劃，他親自走訪極地，見證了封存千萬年冰河的崩解，也因此有了更遠大的計畫。
本片沒有艱澀的學說、複雜的統計，只有詹姆士與他的團隊深入各大極地拍下一張張照片作為鐵證，並以不同時間拍攝的照片作為對比，強烈的對照將衝擊觀眾思維。隨著他的追尋，觀眾不僅能體驗大自然的絕美、欣賞極地之冰的醉心景致，同時也發現隱藏在背後的驚人事實：極地的冰河，正以超乎想像的速度融解著，並為此威脅著全球生命的安危。
當事實以如此直接的面貌呈現在眼前時，更成了當代公民不得不面對的議題。
鑑於各極地冰層的融解，詹姆士組織了極度冰川調查探險隊（ESI, Extreme Ice Survey），橫跨三大陸設置三十架特製攝影機，記錄各地冰山、冰河的狀況。觀眾將見證一個小人物試圖以自己的力量改變歷史，極盡挑戰自己的事業與身體，只為喚起全球對氣候變遷的關注。
影片結束後，這個極度冰川調查探險隊的工作仍持續不懈地進行。
Photographer James BALOG’s documentation of the glaciers was the most-read story in National Geographic Magazine in the last five years. But for BALOG, the assignment also inspired him to engage in a much larger and longer-term project to study the melting arctic. Chasing Ice tells the story of a visionary artist who adventure to capture the most visible sign of climate change, against all odds.
National Geographic photographer James BALOG was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice , we follow BALOG across the Arctic as he deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.
Traveling with a young team of adventurers by helicopter, canoe and dog sled across three continents, BALOG risks his career and his well-being in pursuit of the biggest story in human history. As the debate polarizes America and the intensity of natural disasters ramp up around the world, Chasing Ice depicts a heroic photojournalist on a mission to gather evidence and deliver hope to our carbon-powered planet.