[D66] Fall and Winter (2013)

[R.O.]

https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/fall-and-winter/

  Fall and Winter (2013)
	
	4.7 · 10

This stunning film takes you on a hypnotic journey, reaching to the past 
to understand the origins of the catastrophic environmental transitions 
we now face. Over two years, director Matt Anderson traveled 16,000 
miles to document firsthand our modern industrial world and the 
environmental destruction in its wake. In the process, he discovered 
exciting strategies to help humanity transcend the coming ecological and 
psychological crisis.

Some of today’s most progressive thinkers, from anthropologists and 
bio-architects to psychologists and journalists collectively recreate a 
story of humanity and the history of Earth, illuminating a desperately 
needed new path for us to take. Fall and Winter is a survival guide for 
the 21st Century.





Here's the letter director MATT ANDERSON wrote in conjunction with the 
free re-release of the film:

     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!

(December 2018)