How Pasta Begins Planet Healing in the Dazzling “Living in the Future’s Past”

Jeff Bridges produced award-winning documentary, “Living in the Future’s Past” Susan Kucera filmed, directed and edited brings a new — and  very gently persuasive – perspective on the healing of our planet “being Human for our challenging times and asks the question,  “what kind of future would you like to see?” and explores how we can each contribute towards shaping that future. It offers the challenge of each individual doing one thing, or more, no matter now small to get the planet to a safer place as an answer of how are we going to go about getting there.

Vision Films and Trafalgar Releasing Tickets are on sale now for the screening in select theaters, and for the special exclusive onscreen with Bridges and the filmmakers following the film. For up-to-date information and details, please visit the film website: www.livinginthefuturespast.com.

“Living in the Future’s Past” takes a look ‘under the hood of humanity’ beyond politics and borders to explore what it means to be human in these challenging times,” according to the filmmakers.  It very carefully and cordially traces the needs of a man during evolution as the same motivation for survival needs were partially transformed into commercial “wants.”

To say that Susan Kucera’s photography is a dazzling tour de force of original thinking underplays the startling beauty of her work.    Academy Award winner, Jeff Bridges narrates the story told by scientists, profound thinkers and a miraculous visual array of Earth’s living creatures that gradually reveal eye-opening concepts about ourselves and our past, providing fresh insights into our subconscious motivations and their unintended consequences.

The film shows how no one can predict how major changes might emerge from the spontaneous actions of the many – using the example of the iPhone that transformed communication in less than a decade.  It demonstrates how energy takes many forms as it moves through and animates everything.  How, as we come to understand our true connection to all there is, we will need to redefine our expectations, not as what we will lose, but what we might gain by preparing for something different.

“Living In The Future’s Past” a stunningly a beautifully photographed tour de force produced and presented by Academy Award Winner, Jeff Bridges who explores who we are, where we come from, how we think and why we do the things we do. Bridges share the screen with profound thinkers, scientists, and a dazzling array of the Earth s creatures to reveal profound concepts about ourselves and our future in ways that have never been presented quite like this on film before.

The impressive storytellers of profound thinkers include scientist and astronaut, Piers Sellers; Being Ecological author, Timothy Morton;  physicist Leonard Mlodinow,  author of Elastic: Flexible Thinking In a Time of Change; former NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley Clark, and author  Daniel Goleman of Emotional Intelligence among many other startling experts and profound thinkers.

Living in the Future’s Past looks under the hood of humanity,” incorporating elements of evolution, neuropsychology, emergence, ecology and energy into a paradigm shift in the way we think about environmental challenges.

The impressive original music score is by Bridges collaborator, Keefus Ciancia (Lady Killers, Thunderbird, Sleeping Tapes) with additional music by composer Bob Holroyd and award-winning sound designer Ken Polk.

At a special screening, when Bridges asked how each person could contribute, he answered,” anything, a small thing to start.  Try not using a plastic straw.”  While he himself carried around a pasta straw, and regularly appears on talk shows one, the Western Hospitality Expo this year featured alternatives to plastic straws.   Meanwhile, several laws are going into effect regarding the use of plastic straws in restaurants – higher end restaurants will not offer the plastic; fast food chains (the most widespread offenders) are still distributing them.

Perhaps the best way is not to use straws at all.  When I wrote a booklet on skin care for a prominent cosmetic surgeon he advised never to use straws because they were the biggest contributor to the demise of skin!