The Jasper Film Club will be screening its third film of the season, Force of Nature; The David Suzuki Movie, at the Chaba Theatre on Dec. 2.

The 93-minute film follows Suzuki’s “last lecture”, a  manifesto of his life’s work and “a distillation of my life and thoughts, my legacy, what I want to say before I die,” says the film’s synopsis. 

Suzuki’s lecture was filmed in front of a live audience with images displayed behind him. During the speech, Suzuki follows a critical message; we have exhausted our earth’s resources, and we need to re-evaluate our relationship with the natural world. 

“For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species – us – is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature,” Suzuki says in the film.

The images show a portrait of important places in Suzuki’s life. The synopsis calls the movie a “biography of ideas” that are shaped by major events in Suzuki’s 70 years. 

He is an award-winning scientist, and  the only network television science host who was actually a practising scientist. 

The film was created by Sturla Gunnarsson (films Air India 182 and Beowulf and Grendel, tv show DaVinci’s Inquest).