URTH

Commissioned by The Renaissance Society, Chicago

Part of Urthworks Trilogy - a collaboration with writer Mark von Schlegell

20 MIN S16 COLOUR 16:9

2016

The last woman on Earth, perhaps. Her logbook accounts her struggles with sustaining her world, sanity and dedication to her unforgiving sealed environment. Filmed inside Biosphere 2 in Arizona, it forms a cinematic meditation on ambitious experiments, constructed environments, and visions of the future. The film considers what an endeavor such as Biosphere 2 might mean today in terms of human kind’s relationship with the natural world. Urth takes its title from the Old Norse word suggesting the twisted threads of fate.