Religion & Ecology Film Festival 2019 at CIIS
Thu, Mar 14
|California Institute of Integral Studies
Deep Water Initiative in collaboration with the Department of Ecology, Spirituality and Religion at CIIS will be hosting a screening of the 2018 award-winning film Genesis 2.0, followed by an audience discussion.
Time & Location
Mar 14, 2019, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
California Institute of Integral Studies, 1453 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
About The Event
Something big is coming. Bigger than a mammoth. Much bigger.
The film observes the harsh and dangerous life of so-called mammoth hunters on the remote New Siberian Islands in the far north of Siberia. The archaic landscape in which these people are looking for the tusks of extinct mammoths looks like primordial earth. There is a kind of gold rush fever in the air, because the prices for this white gold have never been so high. But the thawing permafrost unveils more than just precious ivory. Sometimes the hunters find an almost completely preserved mammoth carcass with fur, liquid blood and muscle tissue on which arctic foxes gnaw.
Such finds are magnets for high-tech Russian and South Korean clone researchers in search of mammoth cells with the greatest possible degree of intact DNA. Their mission could be part of a science-fiction plot. They want to bring the extinct woolly mammoth…