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Existential Risk

2025PGdocumentary

In Cambridge, England, discussions surrounding the potential for human extinction and civilizational collapse are explored alongside a personal existential crisis.

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In Cambridge, England, discussions surrounding the potential for human extinction and civilizational collapse are explored alongside a personal existential crisis.

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Gary Walkow

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Existential Risk is a film about the possibility of human extinction or civilizational collapse, as these questions (and others) are grappled with in Cambridge, England. A personal documentary in which the filmmaker's own existential crisis (micro) is contrasted with planetary risk (macro).

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