Law of Inertia
Starting point after Midterms:
Script Writing exercise:
The Sloth-Movement as a community
In our future a group of people chose to genetically modify themselves to be “sloth-hybrid” humans. These humans have a very slow metabolism, which is supposed to be the solution against climate change and scarcity of recources. Since a “Sloth-Person” only consumes about 130kcal per day their impact on the world to a minimum.
While the mainstream exhilarates with busyness and productivity, still driving humanity towards economical instabilities, societal inequalities and climate catastrophes, the sloth is living in balance and harmony with it’s surroundings. On a diet kept strictly to leaves they grow inside their appartments. the Terraniums they carry around fosters symbiotic life and feeds their plants, this means that they have next to no negative effect on their surroundings.
The sloth lifestyle started as a solution to global problems and crisis. But it started offering more: Unpredicted side effects such as solving things like purposelessness, types of depression and not being able to keep up with an evergrowing capitalistic world.
Ideas for the looks of a sloth person:
Ideas for the terrarium
AI generated ideas:
A sloth persons stomach(s)
Loose idea for what the sloth could sound like:
The sloth is not being portrayed as dumb and slow understanding, but as illuminated and measured. It is not speaking a lot and when it does, it takes it’s time.
The movie
A documentary that showcases the sloths lifestyle and it’s natural habitat. The sloth-person is beeing followed by an interviewer from the mainstream world with a light tone of disapproval. The viewer gets and insight on how the sloth copes with a day in it’s life. Very slowly.
In this “nature” documentary, David Attenborough meets “docuganda” – putting the sloth lifestyle in a bright light – while having a behind the scenes angle that shows the disgust of the still productive people.
What do we want to show the watcher?
The flaws of both worlds: total relaxation and pointless productivity. We highlight the loss of identity/humanity vs “over” individualism, and the idea that we can only come closer to nature/solve climate change by “engineering ourselves in a very unnatural way” — the absurdity of the solution. The film acts as a mirror of their own feelings towards these worlds.
What does one gain by becoming a sloth?
- Contribution to climate with reducing my CO2 footprint and contributing to ecosystem — without any effort.
- Being productive, going with the flow — without effort.
- No more struggles of human brain = just be happy (no mental illnesses, no more comparison, etc.).
- Self-sufficient (no more work/guilt/looking for meaning).
What does one lose by becoming a sloth?
- Self-identity.
- Community.
- Humanity.
- Control/power.
- Potential future.
- Drive.
Road till Design Freeze
- Decide final looks of sloth
- Complete the storyline and scenes
- Finish scripts
- Find a place to shoot
- Find an actor for the main protagonist
