If we live in a city with little or no 'ecology' around us, where on earth do we start to make an 'ecological' lifestyle? This very short film brings us into the minds of natural farmers in Japan and the United States, discovering how city dwellers can begin to live with more peaceful, ecologically-connected mindsets. From this rooted foundation, we think humans can harness the kind of creative innovation that will help us re-imagine our cities as ecologically and socially just places.
This film premiered in 2021 at the Nature of Cities Festival (www.tnoc-festival.com), a global festival where over 2,200 people from 72 different countries gathered to radically imagine cities of the future.
PRODUCTION:
Director / Cinematographer: Patrick M. Lydon
Editor: Suhee Kang
Music: WindSync
Cast: Yoshikazu Kawaguchi, Kenji Murakami, Larry Korn
A City is Part of the Universe was independently produced by City as Nature art and media studio (www.cityasnature.org) with previously unreleased archival footage from our feature length documentary, Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness.
We would like to thank the following supporters, whose recent donations made this production possible: The Cole Winery, Borycki Foundation for Art, Fireclay Tile, Robin Lasser, Kachua, Kelly J Steele, Madhukara Gopal Rao Sringeri