The Wild Defending Itself is a feature-length documentary (90 min) by Vincent Verzat, produced by Partager c'est Sympa. | dG1fWEh3VG83VDlLd1U
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00:00We are the President, we are the President.
00:05The Paris Agreement for the climate is accepted.
00:17It's been 10 years now that I've been filming the climate movement.
00:25The world's destruction and all those trying to protect it.
00:30We are the President, we are the President.
00:35We gave it our all.
00:37But 10 years on, we have to take stock.
00:39We're heading straight for a cliff.
00:41I felt powerlessness, like so many others of my generation.
00:45Eco-anxiety, as if I'd run out of breath.
00:51I wore myself out.
00:53Four years ago, I turned to the wild.
01:04I set off in search of a restorative activism.
01:11One grounded in a closer relationship with nature.
01:14And our shared interdependencies.
01:19Rooted in a landscape.
01:23I wanted the world's inhabitants to return to mine.
01:29And to bind myself to their fate.
01:31To broaden my horizon.
01:40So I could nourish my thinking and provide new tools for our struggle.
01:48To stand on two feet, with one in activism, the other in naturalism.
01:51From contemplation to combat.
01:56To slip into the breach.
01:59And find hope again.
02:01I've journeyed between noise and silence.
02:06Between the crowd and solitude.
02:09This is my path.
02:10And where it's taken me.
02:14This is my path.
02:16And where it's taken me.