The Eternal Cycle of Life
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Swiss documentary follows a year on a small organic farm near Zurich. It shows the daily work of caring for animals through births, mating, slaughter, and new growth. The farm's cycle is framed as a reflection on how endings lead to new beginnings.
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What happens
The Eternal Cycle of Life is a 2026 Swiss documentary film written, directed, and produced by Yadolah Dodge. It follows a full year in the life of "Chalte Hose", a small organic farm near Zurich run by Claudia Wanger and Nils Müller, tracing the farm's rhythm of birth, care, mating, slaughter, and renewal. The film presents this cycle as an expression of a broader philosophy of life and death, drawing on ideas associated with the Sufi poets Attar and Rumi, in which every ending is understood as the beginning of a new form of life. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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