High in the mountain landscapes of Colorado, time is non-linear: it loops through data, blooms, and memory. Floruit [working title] is a semi-fictional short documentary set at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL), a field station nestled high in the Colorado Rockies where scientists have studied the mountain ecosystems since 1928. Framed through the lens of a rapidly changing environment, the film follows the work of ecologists, like Dr. Diane Campbell, who has spent the last several decades observing particular wildflower species. Her meticulous records now form one of the world’s longest-running plant trait datasets, allowing her to model evolutionary futures. Alongside her and fellow researchers such as Dr Paul CaraDonna and Dr Ian Breckheimer, the film delves into scent trails, pollinator shifts, weather mapping, and the technologies used to simulate future climates. Together with the director, Federico Barni, we are developing a piece that travels fluidly across time scales and altitudes, exploring the shifting colours and forms of the scientists’ wild research subjects. Guided by a fictional narrator from the future, the film meditates on how knowledge, ecology, and adaptation will evolve in a changing world. Captured on film to aesthetically and conceptually translate the rawness and delicacy of field research into a cinematic language.