The film is set in a familiar yet non-specific location and time, where humans have, despite their efforts, unexpectedly stopped propagating. Instead, they stand as defeated witnesses of cases of pregnant women giving birth to mammals. Focusing on micro-scale relations, the film unravels a community stuck between its traditional past and its hopeless future.
Within this clash of progress and failure, "The Future is an Elder Cow" presents a world in transition that lingers between the social and the taboo, the maternal and the animalistic. Approaching such a concept through fiction and naturalism, the film hopes to stand as an existential allegory on our failure to acknowledge animals as equal beings on this planet.
The urgency I feel for this topic is one that I cannot separate from the ecological crisis of our times. However, my interest is not a didactic one. I aim at proposing an authentic, mythical universe that is both familiar and odd, in which the coexistence of humans and nature is in turmoil.