I wasn’t sure what to expect of the film “Planetary” which I was recently sent to review. I was certainly not expecting to have a life changing moment of clarity about what we all need to collectively do. To find a new way of telling the story – a new kind of intelligence that is not data based, but narrative based. To understand how small and disconnected from the earth we have all become and to realise that in 50 years all that we do will be trivial except for what it means to relate as an individual to a global community and to ensure that we do something about it very soon, because, frankly, our inability to address what we are doing to our planet is literally, going to “cost us the earth”.
We are in the midst of a global crisis of perspective. We have forgotten the undeniable truth that everything is connected. PLANETARY is a provocative and breathtaking wakeup call, a cross continental, cinematic journey, that explores our cosmic origins and our future as a species. PLANETARY is a poetic and humbling reminder that it’s time to shift our perspective. PLANETARY asks us to rethink who we really are, to reconsider our relationship with ourselves, each other and the world around us – to remember that: we are PLANETARY.
Reconnect To Something Bigger.The filmmakers will present the film globally day-and-date theatrically and on Vimeo On Demand on Earth Day, April 22, 2015. PLANETARY, a cross continental cinematic journey and film-going experience like no other, will make its World Premiere next week at the SXSW Film Festival in the Vimeo Theatre.
In a stunning visual exploration, the film interweaves imagery from NASA Apollo missions with visions of the Milky Way, Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayas, and the cacophonous sounds of downtown Tokyo and Manhattan, with intimate interviews from renowned experts including astronauts Ron Garan and Mae Jemison (the first African American woman in space), celebrated environmentalist Bill McKibben, National Book Award winner Barry Lopez, anthropologist Wade Davis, to National Geographic Explorer Elizabeth Lindsey, and Head of the Tibetan Buddhist Kagyu school, the 17th Karmapa. They shed new light on the ways our worldview is profoundly affecting life on our planet.
I’m in – now what can I do to help?
