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A look at mans relationship with Dirt. Dirt and humans couldnt be closer. We started our journey together as stardust, swirled by cosmic forces into our galaxy, solar system, and planet. We are made of the same stuff. Four billion years of evolution created dirt as the living source of all life on Earth including humans. Dirt has given us food, shelter, fuel, medicine, ceramics, flowers, cosmetics and color --everything needed for our survival. For most of the last ten thousand years we humans understood our intimate bond with dirt and the rest of nature. We took care of the soils that took care of us. But, over time, we lost that connection. Our species became greedy and careless. We still depend on dirt, but now we abuse and ignore it. We are destroying our last natural resource with our agriculture, our mining, and our paving over the planet for cities. We turned dirt into something "dirty." In doing so, we transform the skin of the earth into a hellish and dangerous landscape for all life on earth. A millennial shift in consciousness about the environment offers a beacon of hope - and practical solutions. Around the globe, pioneers are coming together to save earths last natural resource. Tiny villages rise up to battle giant corporations slaughtering their land. Scientists discover connections with soil that can balance global warming. Generation X brands organic farming as trendy and children begin to eat from edible school yards. Inmates find inner peace and job skills in a prison horticulture program. Medical researchers explore dirts capacity to provide solutions to such devastating health crises as AIDS. Major religions are rediscovering the reverence for the natural world that unites them all. Uses animation, vignettes, personal accounts and story telling.
"Floods, drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt." DIRT! The Movie-directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow-takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earths most valuable and under appreciated source of fertility-from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. The opening scenes of the film dive into the wonderment of the soil. Made from the same elements as the stars, plants and animals, and us, "dirt is very much alive." Though, in modern industrial pursuits and clamor for both profit and natural resources, our human connection to and respect for soil has been disrupted. "Drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt." DIRT! The Movie-narrated by Jaime Lee Curtis-brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has. It shares the stories of experts from all over the world who study and are able to harness the beauty and power of a respectful and mutually beneficial relationship with soil. DIRT! The Movie is simply a movie about dirt. The real change lies in our notion of what dirt is. The movie teaches us: "When humans arrived 2 million years ago, everything changed for dirt. And from that moment on, the fate of dirt and humans has been intimately linked." But more than the film and the lessons that it teaches, DIRT! The Movie is a call to action. "The only remedy for disconnecting people from the natural world is connecting them to it again." What weve destroyed, we can heal.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Self - Narrator
Bill Logan
Self - Author, Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
Vandana Shiva
Self - Physicist, Farmer & Environmental Activist
Fritjof Capra
Self - Theoretical Physicist & Author
John Todd
Self - Biologist & Eco-designer
Gary Vaynerchuk
Self - Host, Wine Library TV
Wangari Maathai
Self - Nobel Laureate & Founder of Green Belt Movement
Janine Benyus
Self - Founder, The Biomimicry Institute
Miguel Altieri
Self - Entomologist, UC Berkeley
Jeremy Narby
Self - Anthropologist & Author
Paul Stamets
Self - Mycologist
Andy Lipkis
Self - Founder & President, TreePeople
Bob Cannard
Self - Farmer
Kevin Rowell
Self - Natural Builder
Marisha Farnsworth
Self - Natural Builder
Jeannette Armstrong
Self - Speaker, Okanagan Indian Land
David Orr
Self - Professor of Environmental Studies, Oberlin College
Sebastião Salgado
Self - Photographer & Co-Founder of Instituto Terra
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