Return to 2008 Award Winners
2008
Juror’s Award
Best Humanitarian Observation
Trading the Future is a video essay or hybrid documentary that questions the inevitability of apocalypse and its repercussions on environmental urgencies. Starting with a personal account addressing the Christian narrative for the end of times, the video draws connections to secular apocalypticism and questions our ready acceptance of a cataclysmic end. The video also challenges the philosophical and practical underpinnings of science and progress, the market place, and the symbolic of death while proposing possible alternatives in activism, biodiversity, and the idea of natality.
Credits
Director:
b.h. Yael
Country:
Canada
Runtime:
59 minutes