Variety have reviewed the Climate of Change, the ecological documentary with text written by Simon Armitage and narrated by Tilda Swinton:

Half eco-docu, half art, "Climate of Change" is social-action cinema with a twist -- it suggests that human beings might actually deserve an unspoiled planet. Via music, intoxicating visuals and Simon Armitage's poetry -- recited with her customary elegance by vocal hypnotist Tilda Swinton -- pic mixes the best of humanity with the worst, including the rape of the West Virginia landscape by coal interests and the mercenary razing of Pacific Island rainforests. A must-see for the green at heart, "Climate" will hit VOD date-and-date with its Tribeca fest screenings, to be followed by a small theatrical release.

No one familiar with Brit helmer Brian Hill will be surprised by the pic's shots of schoolchildren spontaneously singing in the streets of India, or the segues from poisoned Appalachian streams and topless mountains to Swinton's voiceover, which imbues the physical world with a meter all its own. Hill has always brought a musical-theatrical element to his nonfiction, be it the landmark "Drinking for England," which paid melodic tribute to Anglo drunkenness, or the memorable "Songbirds," in which female inmates sang their own stories. In "Climate of Change," Hill once again uses Armitage's verse, its occasionally Dr. Seuss-like cadences rocking us into a rhythmic synchronicity with an Earth shot with crystal clarity, and with a mix of horrible beauty and enlightened despair.