We are living through the end of a world — and what comes next requires a profound shift in how we relate to ourselves, each other, the more than human world, and the systems we inhabit. This is not about fixing what’s broken, but about seeing differently, relating differently, and creating differently. This film is not a roadmap out of crisis or a rush to solutions. Rather, it is an invitation to become intimate with compounding uncertainty, complexity, grief, and transformation. We are not building a new world—we are composting an old one and learning to live beyond the conceptual boundaries of the familiar into what is emerging. This is not the end, but a threshold. We are not seeking solutions, but transformations.

We will be exploring open-ended questions about how we build new civic, social, and ecological infrastructures rooted in a culture of trust, politics of care, and wise use of technology. This film won’t tell you what to do. It will change how you listen, feel, and relate. You’ll leave not with a plan but with a different orientation to life, death, and horizons of possibility. 

What lies ahead is unknown, but from the compost heap, new forms of life — rooted in entangled and pluralistic realism and a radical reverence for the miracle of life — are already sprouting in the soil of thousands of beautiful experiments arising globally. These are largely developed through collaborative inspiration and networks based on shared values that serve life. 

Going by the names of:

circular/regenerative/wellbeing economies, post growth initiatives, biomimetic technologies, Indigenous community/cultural/territorial renewal, decentralized governance, citizen assemblies, open civics, network nations, open source and peer-to-peer infrastructures, commoning, rewilding, regenerative leadership, community resilience, convivial institutions, bioregioning, placemaking, cosmolocalism, mycelial networks, nature connection, earth/kinship-based spirituality, reimagining schools and education.

These are compost scraps and fragments of potential unfolding. The purpose of this film is not to highlight any particular initiative or organization but to help make legible the contours of what could be called a fledgling planetary era. This film is not mapping the shift but participating in it. We cannot control outcomes, but conscious participation tends to generate more responsive, adaptive, and life-affirming patterns of world-making. The goal is recognizing that relationship is the foundation of all life. 

We're living through what many consider the most significant liminal moment in human history — a period of breakdown and breakthrough that could determine whether our species develops the collective wisdom necessary to navigate the unfolding challenges. Existential risk is real. Everything is at stake.

This film posits that some of humanity is undergoing a change at the very root of how we understand reality, from separate individuals in a zero sum game to entangled becomings in the infinite game of the web of life. The film intends to give the audience a felt sense of  it, because once you really feel it in your bones, you can't go back. You can't unsee the living world. You can't pretend you're separate anymore.

This film is especially for young adults (ages 20-35) — so they can make sense of the world that is dying and more importantly begin to see the edges of more desirable futures, embody a sense of belonging to the Earth, and feel empowered to pour out their gifts to our collective becoming. 

This is an invitation to be a part of creating and nourishing the conditions for new worlds to take root (ones that we would be proud to leave for future generations). And everyone has a role to play!

Donations of $1000 can be funneled through our fiscal sponsor (Open Field Awakening 501c3) for tax credit if requested.

Donations of $5000 or greater will be listed as an Executive Producer if desired.

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