White Knight (2012)
- Directed by
- Aarti Shrivastava
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- India
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An elderly engineer in Ladakh, India invents a way to build artificial glaciers. The documentary shows how his simple technology helps a region facing water shortages from climate change.
informativehopefulearnesteducationalcontemplativemeasuredfocused
What happens
White Knight is an Indian documentary film directed by Aarti Shrivastava. The subject is Chewang Norphel, a 78-year-old engineer in Leh, Ladakh, who, over the last 15 years, has invented and implemented a technology that is helping provide a solution to an ecological disaster created by climate change. The film documents how Ladakh is grappling with an alarming water scarcity situation. In this high altitude desert where the melting of glaciers has been the traditional source of fresh water, a warmer planet is playing havoc with lifestyles and the ecology. With glaciers melting faster, fresh water is precious. Norphel's solution uses common sense and elementary observational science to create artificial glaciers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
Goecha La In Search of Kangchenjunga (2012)
Inshallah, Kashmir (2012)
Char... The No-Man's Island (2012)
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012)
Chasing Ice (2012)
Celluloid Man (2012)
Adhisaya Ulagam 3D (2012)
The Human Boundaries (2012)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.