Undune is a documentary about Terra Preta, Feces & Mars.
Terra Preta: a way to create a fertile, black soil out of our feces.
Yes, feces, turds, poop, number 2, whatever you want to call them,
they're inevitable and – strangely enough – valuable. In a mixture of
fiction and documentary, the Berlin filmmakers Gregor Pieplow and
Dennis Rätzel tackle this everyday taboo – and dare to ask: are we
wasting our waste when we flush?
Undune tells the story of Gregor,
a young physicist who wants to help colonize Mars. Through
interviews with Terra-Preta pioneers, Gregor begins to construct a
method for making human excrement usable on the red planet. His
interviewees believe in Terra Preta's potential to save our planet,
but Gregor seems to be more interested in cloaking
his surroundings in daydreams, including brief episodes that follow
the discoveries of a space explorer who's been stranded on Earth.
With the skewed perspective of a true outsider, the explorer
comments on mankind's peculiarities – including our fascination with
wasting our waste.
UNDUNE will make you ask yourself: Is there such a thing as
useless shit?
The film is freely available on Vimeo with different subtitles:
English vimeo.com/136765705
Italian vimeo.com/185197919
Spanish vimeo.com/134553655
Arabic vimeo.com/182680810
or without subtitles in German:
vimeo.com/136451791