We live in a society constructed around the belief that all things exist and act independently and in isolation; that all life is fundamentally separate. Consider our relationship to water – a substance necessary for life. Our people and our systems wield it with aggressive ignorance, using, extracting, polluting, and wasting it without an awareness of the resulting consequences. This behavior has led us to a razor’s edge.
We now live with increased water/resource wars, famine, eroding farmland, food scarcity, contaminated waterways, limited access to clean drinking water, drought, extreme weather patterns, expanding deserts, species depletion/extinction, drying watersheds, and the displacement of native peoples… and so on it goes.
Reflection is a feature length documentary orienting audiences towards the more expansive perspective of interbeing. Using the water crisis in California as a metaphor for similar concerns around the world, Reflection will weave a tapestry of stories featuring the most influential people and projects currently giving hope to California’s water struggles – examining the sort of shifts in perspective that are necessary for meaningful change to occur and revealing universal solutions to the issues at hand.
It explores our interconnection with water in order to provide a map for the creation of a more harmonious world.
Reflection will take viewers on an intimate journey, chronicling the experience of filmmakers Emmett Brennan and Cailey Clark as they one: embark on a 200-mile group pilgrimage – following one of LA’s major water sources from its origin in the the Sierras to its piped destination in the city – and two: meet with water visionaries from around the state to discover what must be done if we are to build an enduring and healthy society. These visionary visits will be lucid and personal, floating in and out of the pilgrimage as necessary to reveal/anchor the solutions.
Please check out the fund raising page here for more information or to contribute to the construction of another great film, any contribution will be listed in the credits, https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/reflection-a-water-story#/
For more information about the first film, INHABIT, please check out the following links:
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2015/04/23/inhabit-a-permaculture-perspective-is-available-to-watch-now/
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2015/08/29/inhabit-a-permaculture-perspective/
