KISS THE GROUND plays as part of the Paris International Film Festival 2021, taking place 4th – 14th February 2021.
Tickets available at: https://www.parisintlfest.com/
Climate change.
Two words that instil a bit of dread and misunderstanding across the populace. We often berate celebrity encouragement and preaching because we often see the image of the name that we interpret impacting on whether we should take action ourselves. However, we can all change – and a new documentary, narrated by actor Woody Harrelson, might just be the incentive to reflect on our planet and the course that it is taking in the shadow of climate change.
ABOVE: KISS THE GROUND co-directors Josh and Rebecca Tickell
KISS THE GROUND, directed by environmental activists / husband-and-wife Josh and Rebecca Tickell focuses on an idea that could stop us looking up at the atmosphere – and rather look below and within the ground that we stand on. The key element the documentary focuses on is that it is our soil and the the hidden, unseen potential of the microbe content that could not only stop the reduction of the ozone layer caused by fossil fuels, but could also reinvigorate and reverse the process by way of regeneration techniques caused by managing the farmland and environments that are cultivated.
With contributions from key pioneers in the farming industry, as well as appearances from the likes of David and Patricia Arquette, the documentary provides an informative and revealing insight in the effect of politics and war, in particular how certain chemical weapons of war used by the Nazis were then imported to America and renamed as pesticides designed to help improve the potential of crops to provide a decent nutritional infrastructure.
Other elements that do come into play is the issue of recycling food waste, an issue that has come to light in recent years in London with the Felix Project, who use a lot of unpurchased, unused food to redistribute to charity and homeless organisations to help those less fortunate. In San Francisco for example, people are fined if they don’t put their food waste into a suitable coloured containers, which can then be recycled into compost for farming purposes.
This is one of the most amazing and educational documentaries of recent years and one that should be seen by all as a point of reference. A whole host of definitions, as well as significant visual pointers, will enlighten and heighten your own desire to be more involved in the future of the environment and planet.
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