Singing to the Earth Until a Tree Grows
Singing to the Earth Until a Tree Grows is a short film set in the future about the effects of climate change on our world It explores the lives of two people, possibly the last man and woman on Earth, as they try to live their lives in this new reality. The man, who wishes he were a standup comic, spends his days exploring the post-apocalyptic cityscape, where he discovers an old VHS camera. With it he decides to create a reverse time capsule, a chronicle of the world that now exists, for the past. The woman, an artist, is pregnant. She struggles with finding meaning and attempts to capture that struggle in her new painting — a giant canvas spread on the floor of her living room, which she is painting for her unborn daughter. Together they face the struggle of everyday life as possibly the last two humans on Earth.
A Leaping Elephant Production