CLAIRE YEZBAK ON CLIMATE CHANGE
This website — which has been created for Peter Terezakis’s Abrupt Climate Change Class — encapsulates Claire Yezbak’s understanding of the course.
Claire is a Senior at NYU Tisch School of the Arts studying Film & Television. Yezbak RESUME
She has worked on various film projects at NYU, always promoting sustainability on set. After taking Peter’s course, she plans to work on more projects centered around Climate Change and believes she can tackle the topic in a nuanced & digestible manner.
Though Claire does grapple with the ethics of the money-hungry film industry (film projects are unreasonably pricey, and that money is arguably better suited elsewhere in a world so bleak), she also believes it to be a palpably powerful medium for change. She has studied the intersection between art/media & public policy extensively and will continue to study the topic in hopes of creating content that promotes real change — a goal that often feels unattainable. Still, despair is a mindset one mustn’t have to find success in inspiring change.
Claire is grateful to have received such a vast expansion of knowledge on the topic, especially with regard to the neverending surplus of undeniable scientific evidence.
This class has aided Claire as a creator; her future work will undoubtedly reflect this. 