
A look at man's relationship with Dirt. Dirt and humans couldn't be closer. We started our journey together as stardust, swirled by cosmic forces into our galaxy, solar system, and planet. We are made of the same stuff. Four billion years of evolution created dirt as the living source of all life on Earth including humans. Dirt has given us food, shelter, fuel, medicine, ceramics, flowers, cosmetics and color --everything needed for our survival. For most of the last ten thou... (Full plot summary below)
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A look at man's relationship with Dirt. Dirt and humans couldn't be closer. We started our journey together as stardust, swirled by cosmic forces into our galaxy, solar system, and planet. We are made of the same stuff. Four billion years of evolution created dirt as the living source of all life on Earth including humans. Dirt has given us food, shelter, fuel, medicine, ceramics, flowers, cosmetics and color --everything needed for our survival. For most of the last ten thousand years we humans understood our intimate bond with dirt and the rest of nature. We took care of the soils that took care of us. But, over time, we lost that connection. Our species became greedy and careless. We still depend on dirt, but now we abuse and ignore it. We are destroying our last natural resource with our agriculture, our mining, and our paving over the planet for cities. We turned dirt into something "dirty." In doing so, we transform the skin of the earth into a hellish and dangerous landscape for all life on earth. A millennial shift in consciousness about the environment offers a beacon of hope - and practical solutions. Around the globe, pioneers are coming together to save earth's last natural resource. Tiny villages rise up to battle giant corporations slaughtering their land. Scientists discover connections with soil that can balance global warming. Generation X brands organic farming as trendy and children begin to eat from edible school yards. Inmates find inner peace and job skills in a prison horticulture program. Medical researchers explore dirt's capacity to provide solutions to such devastating health crises as AIDS. Major religions are rediscovering the reverence for the natural world that unites them all. Uses animation, vignettes, personal accounts and story telling.
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| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip MartinWell made if standard issue eco-documentary inspired by William Bryant Logan's somewhat breathless book, Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth. |
| User ReviewChad BThe expression "common as dirt" wouldn't exist if there weren't an awful lot of dirt in this world. But is there as much as we think -- or even as much as we need? And what's been happening to it? Dirt is the outer layer of the Earth and the place where nearly all the world's vegetation comes to life, but the 20th Century was a bad time for dirt -- the rise of corporate farming practices have led to reliance of fertilizers with negative long-term effects on the soil, while clear-cutting of rainforests and global warming are making it harder to grow the food the world needs, making workable soil an increasingly scarce commodity. Filmmakers Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow offer a witty but incisive look at dirt, what's in it, how it's used and how we must protect it in the documentary Dirt! The Movie. Adapted in part from the book Dirt! |
| User ReviewApril GDirt is the matrix of life, without it we die. Yet, we are systematically destroying our soil using with pesticides, fertilizers, mountain-top strip mining, asphalt and too many other ways to mention in this brief review. Can we grow enough food to feed all 8 billion of us if we run out of healthy land? Check out this film and find out... |
| User ReviewRafæl MBrian and I saw this movie at the Springs Preserve here in Vegas. We had a chance to meet the director and sit for a good discussion afterwards. It's a great movie and I am excited to see the plans for it evolve. Everyone should see this movie! |
| User ReviewJessica CVery cute, informative & fun documentary on dirt/soil and how alive it truly is. It's definitely worth checking out if you're into documentaries/green/being eco friendly, which I'd hope everyone would be by now. |
| User ReviewCory AInteresting, but a little dry...there seriously was no pun intended there. I promise. |
| User ReviewSandra MWant to watch a dirty movie? This one may do it for you if you're interested in the future of our planet. Lots of inspiring stories as well as horrifying stories of how disconnected we are from the nitty gritty of life. |
| User ReviewOle JWell I didn't knew Dirt could be so interesting, its an interesting look at dirt and how different cultures either respect and uses it, or they don't. |