Taking a cue from the work of biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson, this experimental film reveals the apparatus of how life on earth is threatened by change that comes too quickly and at too high a price. As director Erin Espelie writes, “Try as we might, we cannot autopsy (from the Greek, to see for oneself) the whole natural world. As diversity of life reduces, we further lose the ability to be amphibious (from the Greek, to lead dual lives), to be above a surface and below. In different planes, it may be impossible to achieve focus (from the Latin, place of fire, used first by Johannes Kepler as reference to the burning convergence of a lens).”  DP