Central Victoria Australia, Europe and US
Is money responsible for current socio-economic inequities and ecological unsustainability? How might a postcapitalist imaginary address and resolve the socio-economic and political inequities and ecological unsustainabilities of capitalist relations of production based, as they are, on monetary calculations and relations? What might a postcapitalist world without money feel and look like? How might it operate? The film draws on scholarly research to give life to a degrowth, eco-socialist and nonmarket socialist community mode of production of the future.
"Film making is generally an expensive and highly technical process, with many (mainly male) collaborators using lots of material and energy in production, marketing and distribution. In line with the content of the film, I chose as simple, easy, at hand and inexpensive ways of proceeding. The whole project except for the soundtrack was made by talented women living within 15 km of where I live. I wanted the film to have a creative flair and be constructive. It needed to be concise and then made as freely available as possible.
My findings from screenings in conferences through to small gatherings, indicates that audio-visual communication is a relatively successful way to introduce complicated topics to a range of people and to enable common ground on which to engage with them. At the same time, the simplicity and summary nature of the project has led to certain misconceptions about the sophistications of a community mode of production. Where there is common space for viewers to raise queries with me they can be addressed. In general, employing my film making skills as a form of communication has proved a successful way to convey my ideas and, screened in forums, it has formed common ground on which to discuss really different futures."
The filmmakers acknowledge the Dja Dja Wurrung people as the Traditional Owners of the land on which this short film was produced.