A LIFE'S WORK (2017) DIR DAVID LICATA 

What’s it like to dedicate your life to work that won’t be completed in your lifetime? Fifteen years ago, filmmaker David Licata focused on four projects and the people behind them in an effort to answer this universal question. The subjects are Jill Tarter, involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence since the 1970s, David and Jared Milarch, tree farmers, who clone old-growth trees to combat climate change; Robert Darden, a gospel music archivist founder of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project; Paolo Soleri, a controversial architect behind Arcosanti, a town designed to test theories about housing an overpopulated planet while also preserving and nurturing the natural environment; and Jeff Stein, Soleri’s mentee at Arcosanti in the 1970s and successor after his death. We discover what inspired them to begin, what obstacles they face, what drives and sustains them, how they measure success of an endeavour they will not live to see completed. And who among us will truly see our work finished before we leave this earthly plain.

Film Duration: 1hr 30min