A production of The Moxie Institute

"When you tug at a single thing, you find it attached to the rest of the world."

                                                                            --John Muir

Synopsis: Mixing powerful visuals, humor, and serious messages, Connected takes audiences on a stream-of-consciousness ride through the interconnectedness of humankind, nature, progress and morality at the dawn of the 21st Century. This film, discussion and Internet project explores the surprising links between biology, technology, and culture, illuminating the complex relationships between our actions and the world.

Breaking from traditional documentary form, Connected is part documentary, part narrative, and part something completely different. It employs a symbolic collage of images, animation, and graphics in different contexts, making viewers laugh, think, and then rethink their preconceptions of progress, independence, and the consequences of their actions in an interdependent world.

Objective: While public attention is often directed to specific issues of our day — the environment, population growth, poverty, globalization, human rights — Connected re-contextualizes, in a fresh way, how all the crucial issues of the 21st Century are interlinked. The film’s display of interdependence gives a glimpse into the larger narrative of the society in which we live.

The Connected team is currently in production at the San Francisco Film Society’s Filmhouse Residency at Pier 27, San Francisco. The SF Film Society offered us the residency, and we are very happy to be in production surrounded by other filmmakers.  Watch a behind the scenes video and read about our experience at the film house.