What is technological and medical innovation doing to our humanity?
I think we are all struggling to define ourselves and the boundaries of individual existence in an age of hyper-connectivity, where we are constantly under surveillance, with our private data shared liberally and the inevitable creep of Transhumanism accelerating.
Are we in control of our own lives, or is that just a lie we tell ourselves?
I am consumed with these questions, and I found many of my own obsessions through the pages of Marie Darrieussecq’s novel Our Life in The Forest. While her novel grapples with these contemporary issues within a haunting dystopian context, our adaptation attempts to bring that nightmarish dystopia into the present.
Even as Marie’s journey deals with the rise of bio-technology, I intend for the filmmaking to be organic and sensual, far from the cold formalism frequently deployed in science fiction.
Nocturnal, tactile; a film of rusting metal and scar tissue, rejecting sterility and embracing the struggle of its resilient female protagonist.