EXPLORING THE

DRILOSPHERE

DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION

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Exploring The Drilosphere is a feature documentary that moves

between soil, bodies, and communities, tracing the invisible systems that turn decay into life.

Through dance, science, and global

encounters, the film asks how care for the unseen might reshape our future.

Director

Roberto Pirelli

Producer

Sui Ting Kwok

Macro Photographer

Kevin Collins

Creator

Michael O'Brien

STARRING

ESTHER HOI MING CHAN

STELLA SIEH

GIULIA CAPRI

BENNY ERREZ

DR FRANCISCO NIEMBRO

JACK CHAMBERS

DR MARKUS WERNLI

DR MICHELLE LAW

STEVE CHURCHILL

Esther Hoi Ming Chan - Soil Dance

Photo Credit Richie Fowler

ENDORSEMENTS

“The Annelid phylum is hugely ignored. This is a good film to be made.

The film’s subject matter is wonderful”

Paul Hawken

Environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author

"Exploring the Drilosphere has insights from recent cutting-edge interdisciplinary academic research creatively expressed and developed from a design perspective”

Dr. Christiane M. Herr

Professor at the School of Design, SUSTECH

Macrophotography photo credit Kevin Collins

Photograph earthworm lumbricidae species. (Hallmén, 2013)

“Exploring The Drilosphere” has the vision built upon the ethos of us and local art and cultural support impacts. We believe in the power of art to provoke thought, inspire action, and foster connections within communities"

Vera Lam

Director of HART Gallery Hong Kong

Exploring the Drilosphere ”highlights the critical importance of a vulnerable part of our ecosystem that remains largely hidden from our day-to-day experience and, therefore, receives little attention or protection. Remarkably, the project goes far beyond factual academic inquiry. It also speculatively explores requisite cultural and belief systems that may help restore and sustain the health of the drilosphere”

Dr. Thomas Fischer

Design educator, researcher, & professor at the School of Design, SUSTECH