The Cross of the Moment
Fermi's Paradox, the puzzle of why the galaxy looks empty of other civilizations, becomes the entry point for a film about whether ours is about to answer the question by disappearing. Scientists and intellectuals sit for extended interviews, structured across seven chapters that move from Rare Earth Theory and the astronomical odds against intelligent life, down to human impact on the biosphere, the structural barriers to fixing it, and the mechanics of civilizational collapse. Capitalism gets treated as a driver of the crisis rather than a backdrop to it, and the film keeps returning to the idea that climate change and the Fermi Paradox might be the same problem viewed at different scales. There are no graphics, reenactments, or narrated introductions; the film is built entirely from people talking, and it leans on their expertise rather than visual effects to carry the argument. It does not offer a tidy solution, ending instead on the scale of the barriers between what is known about the crisis and what gets done about it.