With the arrival of eucalyptus trees financed by the paper industry, the landscape is radically transformed. Fires, erosion and soil contamination are causing old-growth forests to disappear. Plants and animals end up fleeing to wherever they can survive. Unfortunately, habitable places for foxes, fallow deer, wild boar, lynx, deer, wolves and many birds are becoming increasingly rare. Eostre, the goddess of spring, seeing that humanity is bringing about its own demise and delaying the arrival of spring, transforms an injured bird into a hare, her favorite animal. The hare receives a mission: to reestablish the forest balance, so that animals can return to life. When Spring returns, the hare will be able to turn back into a bird and sing again.
Bakish Rao: plants in struggle (2024), by Denilson Baniwa and Comando Matico
Bakish Rao: plants in struggle is a science fiction that speculates on plantations and the future of the planet from the perspective of plants and through experimentation with the plant universe. Thus, with the human perspective de-centred, the film is a collaborative experience between artistic languages and scientific debates, as well as an essay that explores the limits of communication by proposing a multi-species speculation to tell the story of the destruction of the forest and the forms of resistance to the homogenization of ecology and thought.
This film introduces the ECO project and its main goals.