TerraForma
TerraForma is the story of the remote desert island of Ascension: for a million years entirely devoid of life, but it was engineered by the process of "terraforming" into a tropical paradise. It is also the story of what that transformation may mean for the fate of our planet, in a future when terraformed landscapes and human-engineered environments may come to warp our understanding of nature itself.
Credits and Cast
Producer(s): Kevin Brennan, Laurence Durkin
Director: Kevin Brennan, Laurence Durkin
Kevin Brennan and Laurence Durkin have been working on films together since 2017, and directing in partnership since 2020, with their short film "Undertow". Kevin is an Irish artist and filmmaker from Galway, Ireland. Laurence is a documentary filmmaker from East London. Their work together explores themes of identity, landscape, and human relationships with the natural world. They completed their first feature together in 2023 - TerraForma - which looks at the devastating and unprecedented geo-engineering project that radically altered the climate and ecology of Ascension Island.
