First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture
First Earth is a documentary about a movement that has undergone a massive paradigm shift in housing – the old-fashioned way of building healthy homes out of the earth itself, and by rebuilding villages to live together like they used to.
It’s a sprawling film, with locations ranging from the West Coast to West Africa. First Earth is an audiovisual manifesto filmed over 4 years and spanning 4 continents advocating that adobe homes are the healthiest homes on earth. Since it still takes a village to raise a healthy child, it is our duty to transform our suburban sprawl into ecovillages, a new North American dream.
First Earth is not a how-to film; rather, it is a why film. It identifies the applicability of adobe architecture to any cultural context and to any socioeconomic condition, from third world communities to first world rural areas, from the Arabian desert to the American urban jungle.
In a time of intertwined ecological and economic collapse, peak oil and other emergencies, the solution to many of our problems may be a return to basics and a focus on food, clothing and shelter. We need to think about houses differently for material and spiritual reasons, both personal and political.
