Low-Tech
Adrien Bellay / France / 2023 / 93 min
The solution to the climate crisis is already here if you ask the growing low tech movement, who insist that with simple means and great ingenuity, it is possible to live a modern life without destroying the planet.
Technological development is like a car without brakes. It roars headlong down the motorway and everyone has forgotten where it was going. It’s a thought experiment that drives the green utopians of the low-tech movement. Aboard a yellow hippie bus, they visit local repair cafés, innovative car manufacturers and organic farms, all of which are devising different solutions to our technological overconsumption. They are part of the low-tech movement that has been dubbed the third industrial revolution, which seeks to re-establish our relationship with the technology around us. Because maybe it is not necessary to replace your home printer every two years after all. And maybe the utopians of ‘Low-Tech’ are actually the realists of the modern world. They have realised that we can’t keep overspending as we do now, and they have a solution to the problem.