WHAT ARE WE LEFT WITH?

My challenge has been to steer away from the anxiety driven ecological narrative and give lightness to deep themes. As those concepts unravel it has also been important for me to develop the notion of opening questions as opposed to searching for answers. The structure of this film is very much opening vaster and vaster questions about our position in this world.

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This goes hand in hand with the difficulty of going beyond the purely informative and finding an emotional response from each of the protagonists who come from such different backgrounds. Demanding the same openness from children, artists, researchers and scientists is a daring proposition; hoping that the interaction will provoke at least one question inside the protagonist’s minds - or a shift in perspective.

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The hope is to do the same with the public. Challenging them to reconsider their position while ‘cradling’ them with this emotional approach.

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I do not intend to leave the viewer hanging in doubt, but open, curious and moved. Feeling that, yes, we can work together. Moreover, the public will be leaving the film with scientific information, concrete facts, poetic inspiration and knowledge which goes through disciplines.

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Limits are fluid and the research goes beyond the expected boundaries of science and art. We have been speaking to artist scientists and scientists who delve into the creative. Those languages become crossed and hence richer.

 

This movie is truly a process where the seasons drive us toward another point of view. I want the spectator to feel taken by the hand and walked calmly through this immense shift.