What is everyday life for humans? What does this everyday mean in a larger context — does it remain mundane, or does it become something else entirely? How does this repetitive everyday shape our experiences, our ways of seeing, feeling, being? What role does the non-human play in our lives, in this shared space of existence?

The repeated nature of the everyday — does it make us numb, or does it hold the potential to make us more alive? How aware are we of ourselves, our surroundings, and the other-than-human things while moving through our everyday life? In this fast-moving world, we often leave the everyday unnoticed. What happens around us fades into the background. A tree being cut down in front of our lane goes unasked, unseen — we only notice it when it lies across the road, blocking our way to somewhere we think is more important.

This month’s film screening event of Shared Ecologies tries to take you into the unnoticed and the ignored everyday — to pause, to look again, and to remember what we live with, what we live among.