Let men rot and nourish the earth
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Country - Bosnia & Herzegovina
Team Lead Organisation - Obojena Klapa
Organisation Lead contact - Benjamin cenic

Let Men Rot and Nourish the Earth is a musical-essayistic documentary unfolding in three acts, tracing the invisible dimensions of the climate crisis across radically different yet interconnected landscapes. Moving from the abstract, data-driven emptiness of the Arctic, through the suffocating smog of post-socialist Balkan cities, to the technologically sealed biospheres of the global elite, the film follows a solitary figure in a survival suit navigating these vanishing worlds.

Equipped with an experimental instrument — KLIMATON — that translates climate data into sound, this figure becomes both witness and mediator, rendering the imperceptible audible and emotionally tangible. The film's triptych structure exposes three forms of invisibility: the Arctic's catastrophe that exists only as data; the normalised toxicity of polluted urban life; and the deliberate concealment of ecological collapse within exclusive technological enclaves.

The survival suit emerges as a central metaphor, questioning the boundaries between protection and isolation, and what remains of humanity when disconnection from the Earth becomes a condition of survival. KLIMATON, used in sound and musical structures composed by Hanan Hadžajlić, transforms Arctic climate data into soundscapes that form the film's auditory backbone, embodying the tension between knowledge and perception.

The film asks who is able to perceive the crisis, who can escape it, and what forms of life are left behind.