The Climate Experiment - a film by Bigert & Bergström

A film about the Swedish artist duo Bigert & Bergström’s climate-related art, which for three decades has been inspired by research on the effects of climate on humanity and vice versa.
The Climate Experiment tells the story of the growing realization of our own role in the changing climate. Our interference in the atmospheric cocktail could be described as the greatest experiment in human history. An experiment whose outcome is highly uncertain.
The film presents the lurking awareness of our own role in the change of climate. The title refers to the kind of research that challenged the conception of nature as an inexhaustible resource, but also to the artists’ own work with various geo-engineering projects, in which they try to deal with the effects of an increasingly heated atmosphere.

In the film we follow Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström during research journeys, major exhibitions, inaugurals of public works and meetings with journalists, environmental historians and climate researchers. Can the artist be a social-minded researcher? Can contemporary art draw attention to problems in new ways and thus affect public opinion? The movie is an attempt to answer these questions.

The Climate Experiment 2018. Duration 00.58.14
Language Swedish English and French English subtitles
Director Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström

Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström met at the Art Academy in 1986 and have since worked together and created a variety of art projects. Driven by energetic curiosity, they often raise climate-related and social issues with large-scale installations, public works and films.