Living in the Future's Past
What kind of future would you like to see?
2018 · 1h 23m · TV-PG
Documentary
Directed by
Susan Kucera
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Living in the Future's Past
Overview
Jeff Bridges, alongside prominent scientists and authors, weaves evolution, emergence, entropy, dark ecology, and what some are calling the end of nature, into a story that helps us understand our place among the species of Earth’s household.
Director and cast
- Susan Kucera Director
- Jeff Bridges as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Piers Sellers as Self - NASA Astronaut & Research Scientist
- Wesley Clark as Self - General, US Army (ret.); Former NATO Supreme Allied Cmdr.
- Oren R. Lyons as Self - Dist Prof of American Studies, Onondaga Council of Chiefs
- Timothy Morton as Self - Philosopher & Author, 'Humankind'
- Bob Inglis as Self - Former Congressman (R), South Carolina
- Rich Pancost as Self - Professor of Biogeochemistry
- Ruth Gates as Self - Marine Biologist; Dir. Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
- Renée Lertzman as Self - Author, ‘Environmental Melancholia’
- Leonard Mlodinow as Self - Physicist
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