We are eco-systems. We have embedded organisms into even the deepest layers of our body: Mitochondria, bacteria derived organelles live within each of our cells. A Billion years ago, the aerobic Bacteria they derive from made all complex life on Earth possible when they incorporated themselves into the then Unicellular ancestor of the Eukaryotic cell (Margulis and Bermudes, 1985) and made multicellular organisms possible. Perhaps they have more agency than we think? Perhaps they are the ones who built this world, an omni-presence that grew our planet into the complex, rich system we love and destroy. Perhaps we are their AI organisms. And we are not behaving to plan.
This film was commissioned by the MIT Museum in 2022 for the exhibition ‘Gene Cultures’. Credits: Concept: Julia Lohman / Script: Julia Lohmann, Gero Grundmann, Ena Naito, Zoe Robertson / Actors and Speakers: Julia Lohmann, Ena Naito, Elise Piquemal, Zoe Robertson / Illustrations: Gero Grundmann / Camera, Editing and Sound Design: Julia Lohmann, Ossi Oikari
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