Due to technical issues, this film is now being shown on Wednesday, November 20. Co-hosted by Sustainable Charlotte, the Charlotte Library, and the Charlotte Conservation Commission, shown at the Charlotte Library. This is an intergenerational event for high schoolers on up. Popcorn and cider provided. This is an 80 minute film. You can leave when it is over, but can stay longer to talk up until 9:00 p.m.
"I urge everyone to see this film, particularly young people. Their view of nature will never be the same." Richard Louv, author, Last Child in the Woods
An inspired collaboration between filmmakers Emma Davie (The Oil Machine) and Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and the influential writer and geophilosopher David Abram ("The Spell of the Sensuous"), Becoming Animal is an urgent and immersive audiovisual quest, forging a path into the places where humans and other animals meet, where we pry open our senses to witness the so-called natural world—which in turn witnesses us, prompting us to reflect on the very essence of what it means to inhabit our animal bodies.
Shot in and around Grand Teton National Park, with its dizzying diversity of wildlife, trails of curious humans in RVs and billion-year-old geology, the film is a geyser of provocative ideas and heightened sensations related to the sublime circuitry that connects us to our ever-shifting surroundings. Driven by wonder, curiosity and a desire for balance between ecological and technological imperatives, Becoming Animal is an invitation to explore our relationship with this "more than human" world and recognize it for what it is: an exquisitely intricate system in which everything is alive and expressive, humans, animals and landscapes are inextricably interdependent, and there is no such thing as empty space.
"Truly amazing. The separation between people and the rest of creation is one of the saddest facts of our day, but as Becoming Animal makes clear, it is not an unbridgeable gulf, not where there is sympathy, good humor, and a willingness to try. David Abram is one of the most remarkable of all Americans."
Bill McKibben, environmentalist, author, educator, journalist, founder of Third Act