Shakespeare predicted climate collapse 400 years ago. This 5-minute gut-punch proves it.
The world is burning up, icecaps melt, floods drown the landscape and people starve. These images are from a Shakespearean speech that dates from the seventeenth century. Climate change today has twisted the seasons beyond recognition, and the Bard's words describing a 'mazed world' are more relevant now than ever before. 'The Seasons Alter' is a vivid short film that uses Shakespearean poetry in the mouths of a modern family to illustrate the most pressing environmental challenge of our time.
Acting
Knightley's young Helena delivers doom with devastating innocence.
Direction
Lunn collapses 400 years into one suffocating family breakfast.
Writing
Midsummer Night's Dream repurposed as environmental elegy.
Director
Roger Lunn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Knightley filmed this the same year as Bend It Like Beckham—her 'year of extremes' between crowd-pleasers and climate despair.
The speech comes from Titania's complaint about nature's disorder in Act 2—originally about fairy quarrels, now read as fossil capital's wreckage.
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