Dirt! The Movie
2009 · 86 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 512 VOTES · DIR. Gene Rosow, Eleonore Dailly, Bill Benenson
Overview
A look at man's relationship with Dirt. Dirt has given us food, shelter, fuel, medicine, ceramics, flowers, cosmetics and color --everything needed for our survival. For most of the last ten thousand years we humans understood our intimate bond with dirt and the rest of nature. We took care of the soils that took care of us. But, over time, we lost that connection. We turned dirt into something "dirty." In doing so, we transform the skin of the earth into a hellish and dangerous landscape for all life on earth. A millennial shift in consciousness about the environment offers a beacon of hope - and practical solutions.
Dialogue Timeline — 951 lines
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00:00:18 Since the beginning of time, of all the planets and
00:03:48 Our wealth is imaginary, it comes from soil.
00:07:23 a little deeper and the lens got a little larger.
00:10:29 that do this transformation.
00:13:41 to soluablize the mineral nutrients from the raw parent material.
00:17:16 maybe even a little bit of cassis on the back of the Sango.
00:21:11 The mixture of mud and cow dung in our climate, has many, many uses
00:24:38 In the past I was not paying attention to the dirt
00:27:54 We live in this living organism, it’s dysfunctional, pathological
00:31:18 What the farmers didn’t realize was that they were killing their dirt
00:34:35 We weren’t designed to eat that kind of diet.
00:38:00 we need to sustain vegetation in these forests.
00:42:04 Given that our bodies reject viruses
00:46:00 Here’s this 120 year window in which we find ourselves.
00:49:49 We have estimated that Ethiopia alone, if properly cultivated, could feed the entire African continent.
00:53:13 What Vandana Shiva and her colleagues do here is to collect
00:56:17 These are gonna be goin’ to Brownsville, Brooklyn, to a lot of the less fortunate families.
00:59:37 Tens of thousands of young people come here to learn about
01:02:48 I really think of this compost pile as a giant casserole
01:05:17 and rototill them in. It was a pretty interesting thing because the local extension agent came by one day
01:08:05 I can kind of almost see their chest cavity expand and their shoulders go out.
01:10:34 I felt that if I kept continue programming positive you know I’ll stay out.
01:13:03 may be very insignificant as far as you’re concerned
200:00:00 killed themselves.