Mark Ruffalo produced a puppet documentary about toxic water. No, you're not hallucinating.
GenX is a four-part documentary covering the complex issue of "forever chemicals" as a global challenge. This journey follows a team personally affected in their seven-year quest to understand the origin, depth and real solutions for this problem. This is a story of hope. Directed by Elijah Yetter-Bowman, produced by Ethereal Films, Mark Ruffalo, Ray Ellis and made in collaboration with the Paperhand Puppet Intervention.
Production
Paperhand puppets make chemical bonds viscerally terrifying and weirdly beautiful.
Direction
Seven years of footage distilled into urgent, personal storytelling.
Writing
Complex science made accessible without dumbing down the horror.
Director
Elijah Yetter-Bowman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Paperhand Puppet Intervention is a North Carolina-based collective known for giant puppet pageants; this is their most politically charged film collaboration.
Rob Bilott's legal battle (featured here) was previously fictionalized in 'Dark Waters' with Ruffalo—this documentary lets the real people, and puppets, tell it.
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