We Are As Gods
September 2 - 4, 2022
A deep dive into the life of Stewart Brand, a legendary pioneer of LSD, cyberspace, futurism, and modern environmentalism. Brand created the revolutionary do-it-yourself publication The Whole Earth Catalog, which Steve Jobs famously called “Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google existed."
Facing the twin environmental crises of mass extinction and climate change, counterculture legend Stewart Brand proposes a potential pandora’s box for conservation: using biotechnology to resurrect extinct species like the wooly mammoth. It’s a crazy idea, but it’s not surprising coming from Stewart, a futurist and popularizer of some of the most significant cultural and technological movements of our era, including psychedelics, the modern environmental movement, personal computers, long term thinking, and biotechnology. Stewart’s methods are controversial, and his colleagues in the environmental movement believe he is meddling with nature and vow to stand in his way. But we are along for the journey as he travels to Siberia to search for mammoth specimens and explore the resurrection of the Mammoth Steppe in an effort to slow climate change and restore balance to this critical ecosystem.
- Director: Jason Sussberg, David Alvarado
- Principal Cast: Stewart Brand, George Church, Hunter Lovins, Ross MacAphee
- Country: USA
- Year: 2020
- Running Time: 96 min.
- Producer: Jamie Meltzer, Kate McLean
- Screenplay: David Alvarado, Jason Sussberg
- Cinematographers: Davis Alvarado
- Editors: Annukka Lilja, Ben Sozanski
- Music: Brian Eno
- US Distributor: Greenwich Entertainment
- International Sales: Submarine Entertainment