Still from All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars. A woman closes her eyes as the wind blows her hair.
All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars
Still from All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars
Film Complete

Directed by

Jennifer Rainsford

All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars (previously titled Stories from the Debris) is a staggering odyssey told as a philosophical and emotional collage, following the wreckages and leftovers of a tsunami during several years, as they move from Japan across the Pacific Ocean to the shores of Hawaii. The film moves from the smallest essence of a life form to the vastness of the sea, to erupting volcanoes and grieving individuals. Ultimately it becomes an examination on how humans and nature rebuild themselves after a trauma and how our attempts to control the world’s great forces seem both futile and momentous.

All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars is a participant of the 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab.

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