look Out!

DESCRIPTION

LOOK OUT!  is a film that transcends the planetary scale of climate change models by delving into the intimate realm of ‘home’ amidst our climactic crisis. Through this exploration, the film presents an alternative mode of engagement that aims to contextualize the life of the climate nihilist. Through visual storytelling, the film seeks to evoke an introspective and empathetic reaction to its characters and their eerily close proximity to us.

The significant evolution of the modern home has resulted in an excess of technologies of comfort embedded within them that continue to foster an illusion of distance between humans and their surroundings. However, this has resulted in homes that aid and embed our objectification of the environment and enable our overall nihilism toward climate change.

In the film, a family living within a state-of-the-art smart house is provided unparalleled comfort and protection from the elements within the remote mountainous forest in California. However, when a forest fire threatens their safety they bunker down, leading to an unexpected turn where their family structure and behaviors become as fragile as the shelter that had once safeguarded them. The home and its occupants embody the principles of climate nihilism, wherein acts of defiance and resistance take precedence over adaptable resilience to the escalating dangers of climate change. This tale challenges whether the walls of the ‘home’ are enough to inspire the fortitude and hopefulness necessary to confront the daunting challenges we face beyond.