Live Radical and CHANGE THE WORLD! - Our First FEATURE FILM Needs Your Gracious Love.
A Film & Video project in Roseburg, OR by Matthew Lessner ·
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Update #5: "The catastrophe of collapse allows for the birth of something new." - 12 hours to go. . .
Posted on October 30, 2009
“A wildfire in a mature forest creates open spaces that allow new species to establish themselves and propagate; it destroys infestations of disease and insects; and it converts vegetation and accumulated debris into nutrients that can be used by plants and animals that reestablish themselves after the fire. The organisms that survive become much less dependent on specific, long-established relationships with each other. Most important, collapse also liberates the ecosystem’s enormous potential for creativity and allows for novel and unpredictable recombination of its elements…. Once marginal species can now capture and exploit newly released nutrients, and genetic mutations that were a bane to survival can now be a boon.”
“Because the system is suddenly far less interconnected and rigid, it’s far more resilient to sudden shock. This is a perfect setting for the forest’s plants and animals to experiment with new behaviors and relationships…”
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Matthew Lessner is filmmaker whose projects have screened at Sundance, SXSW and Clermont-Ferrand. His work has been featured on Wholphin DVD Magazine, Canal+, PBS, and MTV. He is currently represented by Paranoid US and RODS in France. Matthew lives and works between Los Angeles and New York City and is currently in post-production on his first feature film, The Woods.
