121 Echoing, for those familiar with these projects, is the resonance of the name of a forebearer of nonconformist cultivation techniques, in contrast to the intensive agriculture of the 20th century, whose name is almost never mentioned: that is Rudolph Steiner, the father of anthroposophy and biodynamic agriculture. Much like in Steiner's biodynamics, the focus turns to ancient agricultural techniques, and the core of this philosophy is the soil, its regeneration, its care. For those who despair as victims of urbanization, believing that the stone guest in metropolitan life is soil, there's a solution: Detroit. Once a city just reliant on the automotive industrial monoculture, it has now become a model for urban agriculture. Out of the ruins of the collapsing industrial empire, a thousand four hundred micro-fiefdoms in the form of organic farms and gardens have emerged, unified under the association Keep Growing, engaged in safeguarding – thanks to an army of twenty thousand volunteers, made up of those who had no means to escape elsewhere: the underprivileged – the city's food sovereignty. To mention the words of the bygone golden age of Detroit’s emperor, Henry Ford: «If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself». The Keep Growing warriors know that urban agriculture won't replace traditional farming, but they aim to complement it, producing enough food to feed half of the population. From reconquering soil through agriculture to regaining sovereignty, the step is as short as it is choral. Perhaps there's a missing question-mark in the title of what is undoubtedly one of the most significant documentaries, in recent years, on the topics of the climate crisis and the capitalist model crash. But it can only be removed twenty years from now, and only if we will truly be able to profoundly figure out what Charles Darwin meant when he stated: «It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change». Tomorrow (Demain), 118’, 2015 Directed by Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent Screenplay by Cyril Dion Produced by Bruno Levy www.fermedubec.com www.detroitagriculture.net
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