Closing in on a rough cut of the new film… Expect some updates soon!
WATCH 'En Nuestras Manos / In Our Hands' NOW!
We’re overjoyed to share the first 3 episodes of our 9-part series ‘En Nuestras Manos / In Our Hands’!!
Check back next Friday Oct. 30 for parts 4-6, where we will visit Nicaragua, Mexico, Ecuador and Peru…
'EN NUESTRAS MANOS' PREMIERING ON OCTOBER 23rd!
In 2016, Director Matt Anderson documented dozens of Biointensive farm and garden projects across 7 countries. En Nuestras Manos / In Our Hands is the culmination of this journey to uncover the miraculous results people are experiencing from using these simple and ancient food-growing techniques.
On October 23rd, we are pleased to release the first 3 episodes. In these first chapters we travel from a farming workshop in Northern California to the ancient aquatic farms of Xochimilco at the Pre-Columbian heart of Mexico city. We travel to Oaxaca and then to rural Kenya, where a small group has trained thousands of farmers techniques for returning to traditional methods of cultivation.
We hope you will enjoy these films, which have been lovingly crafted over a number of years. It is our hope that they help audiences better understanding the important role we can all play in a more harmonious, sustainable relationship with Earth.
BDANC Fall videos
We’ve just released the films we made from the Fall BDANC (Biodynamic Association of Northern California) meeting at Live Power farm in Covelo, CA. It was a special moment, and we hope the films reflect just how much energy this group exuded. Enjoy!
'What's A Colloquium?' is here!
We’re overjoyed to announce that ‘What’s A Colloquium?’ is now available and free to watch!
BDANC
We’ve added the Spring and Summer BDANC videos to our educational section. It has been a joy to work with these biodynamic farmers and learn more about this way of growing food. We look forward to adding more videos over the coming year. Stay tuned…
The Cannabis Culture Museum & Archive
Take a trip with Richard 'RJ' Jergenson, who has spent 5 decades amassing a staggering collection of cannabis culture artifacts and memorabilia. His dream to open the Cannabis Culture Museum has resulted in a temporary 'pop-up museum' in an abandoned drug store in downtown WIllits, CA as he serches for a permanent home for the collection. To learn more about or support RJ's on-of-a-kind project, visit: http://cannabismuseum.us/
New 'En Nuestras Manos' trailer is here!
So excited to share the new trailer for our new project. It’s been years in the making, but somehow feels like perfect timing for it to be coming out:
‘En Nuestras Manos’ [‘In Our Hands’] is about small-scale farmers and backyard gardeners feeding their communities at the dawn of climate change. Shot on over 40 farms and gardens in 7 countries, this 9-part documentary series focuses on a close-knit network of farmers and teachers who’ve been busy training others in the biointensive method. This technique is a synthesis of sustainable farming practices influenced from the collected wisdom of history’s most successful civilizations; it requires no heavy machinery, no chemicals and generates compost. Person to person, workshop by workshop this knowledge has propelled a cross-cultural, open-source agricultural revolution now set to play a major role in mitigating climate change.
Filmed and edited by Matt Anderson (‘Fall and Winter’, SXSW 2013), this intimate portrait of a burgeoning global movement brings you into the garden to uncover the fundamentals of running a sustainable food system at any scale. Learn what principles make the biointensive method work and witness flourishing farms in completely revived ecosystems. See examples across the planet where this method is improving the fertility of the land, adequately feeding families, generating income, all while sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. Empower yourself by learning how to turn scarcity into abundance. The answer is beneath our feet, and the future is in our hands.
Alan Watts: The Discipline of Zen
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Very excited to share a new feature documentary and 9-part series both coming out this year. Stay tuned!
WATCH FALL AND WINTER ON YOUTUBE
Interviewing Chris Hedges in between police sirens | Princeton, NJ | Photo: Paul Park
FALL AND WINTER IS NOW FREE!
I met with the last Hopi traditionalist elder Martin Gashwaseoma at his home high atop the mesas of northeast Arizona in 2008. After several hours of having the Hopi prophesy explained, I asked if Martin would like to do an interview. He declined, saying that people had already come and filmed what he knew. He told me that I would need to find some other elders to speak to.
For the next 4 years I drove around with a couple friends on and off, filming interviews with all of the ‘elders’ that I could find; scientists, back-to-the-landers, historians, indigenous leaders, anarchists, inventors. I wanted to know the truth about our technological civilization, because it seemed that at the heart of our many societal and ecological problems was a profound crisis within us… a fundamental problem with our worldview, our way of life.
Fall and Winter is my attempt to synthesize numerous voices into a collective history of mankind’s will to dominate nature, and the hydra-head of crises this had produced. I hope to have created a film faithful to the message that the Hopi so passionately attempted to deliver to us since the detonation of the first atomic bomb. When this message was finally delivered to an empty UN floor in the 1990’s - 50 years from their initial attempt - it was still well before the realities of climate change was on people’s minds.
We desperately need to understand the scope of what is happening. I believe what we call ‘climate change’ - including the science that confirms it - has yet to reach the understanding held by a few ancient cultures scattered across the planet. People who speak of being the survivors of nature’s previous response to our attempts at domination. Regardless of how we interpret this information, it is in our interest to listen and learn from people who have constructed a way of life that has survived in balance with nature for time immemorial.
In the time since Fall and Winter’s release, I can say that the messages it contains have only mounted in relevance and urgency. This has pushed our decision to make the film available for free. I hope that Fall and Winter moves you, that it engages you, and offers a perspective that challenges the narrative of ‘progress’.
It is my hope that Fall and Winter helps us to better understand the mistakes we have made, including the lies that have perpetuated our increasingly incompatible way of life. It is time we consider the wisdom of perspectives outside the walls of our industrial civilization. Now is the time to be critical of your situation, to find your community, to discover alternate paths.
As Michael Reynolds says in the film: “Avoid the path that this world is presenting you… avoid it like the plague. Get some disinfectant and wash your mind from the virus that you have had put into you. Educate yourself in the phenomena of the planet, and how they can take care of you, and go in that direction.”
Happy Solstice and good luck!
Aho!
HEALING AND HOPE
We're excited to present our new short film about the Seabiscuit Therapeutic Riding Center. It was an honor getting film at this important program and to know these amazing people. Check it out:
WE'RE LIVE!
Welcome to the new Earth Lodge Studio website!
After a few years of filming on the road and editing down in the lodge we're excited to share some new projects with you!
Please expect some exciting updates soon, including a release date for Chorus and a new short documentary about daily life on a Rastafarian commune in Kenya.
Thanks for stopping in! We hope you enjoy our films.
