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Sweat! The Human Superpower

Sweat! One of our least appreciated bodily functions, yet critical to being human. Scientists are only just beginning to uncover the incredible insights sweat can provide about illnesses, diet, and overall fitness and wellbeing.

Through a cast of quirky scientists, surgeons, zoologists, forensic experts, sauna enthusiasts, and exercise fanatics, the curious story of sweat is finally explored. Experiments reveal what makes it such an incredible coolant, demonstrating the hard limits of the human thermoregulation system and the fascinating ways sweat can help us better understand ourselves.

Along the way, it becomes clear that sweat is an often-overlooked but remarkable evolutionary success story—one of the defining traits that make us distinctly human. Join us as we embrace our soggy skin and learn to love our sweat!

Quadrangle

Quadrangle is an unconventional documentary about two “conventional” couples that swapped partners and lived in a group marriage in the early 1970s. Coming out of the era of free love, and struggling with the monotony of marriage and suburban life, Deanna and Paul, began swapping partners with another middle class married couple. This four-way affair became a domestic living experiment when the two couples moved into one home, along with their children. While their individual marriages were failing, they found that together they were happy and thought they had discovered an alternative to divorce – a brave new world that would pave the way for how couples would live in the future. Instead it unraveled. Both couples divorced and married their foursome partners, but they could never truly separate because they were bound by the children they shared.

This film examines the story of the group marriage as told by Deanna and Paul in the present. They are forty years older and estranged, and through seperate interviews a simulated conversation takes place as they recount their stories. How do we grapple with marriage, monogamy, and desire? What happens when you challenge the boundaries of social convention? And what, if anything, did we learn from all that sixties-inspired experimentation?

Future By Design

Future By Design tells the fascinating story of Jacque Fresco, the self taught Scientist, Engineer, Artist, Sociologist and Futurologist. After meeting Einstein as a boy, and coming of age during the depression Fresco immersed himself in learning, from the conflicting ideologies of the time to science and technology. He designed aircraft during the war and afterwards travelled the world before finding himself living with a tribe in Tahiti. It was here that he began to question his values and the organisation of the world, a process that would set him on a path to becoming a prolific inventor, one of the world’s most influential thinkers and the inspiration behind the Zeitgeist Movement.

From the Oscar nominated Director William Gazecki, Future By Design is a visually and intellectually engaging exploration of one man’s vision of a future where war is outdated, there is no shortage of any resource and our focus as a species is harmony and sustainability.

After giving up on the ‘patchwork’ solving of technological and social problems, Jacque decided to start again by re-designing society from the ground up on humanist terms. Far from presenting a vision of Utopia, Jacque demonstrates that with the intelligent management of the world’s resources, a bold combination of high-technology and nature, and a paradigm shift in our attitude to commerce, there could be a viable, sustainable and equitable alternative.

Jacque Fresco’s ideas are not born wholly of optimism or creativity but of the very same scientific rigour that he advocates as the solution to the problems we face. Now in his 90’s, his ideas are more popular than ever, and between world lecture tours he can be found at work in The Venus Project – a research centre built around his vision of the future.

An outspoken and immediately likable character, his radical and sometimes irreverent ideas are sure to draw praise, wonder and controversy.

Jacque Fresco was featured in the Zeitgeist Addendum documentary, and is currently on a World Lecture Tour.