10.0
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Comedy, Documentary • 2025 • 90 min
Found Footage Festival: 20th Anniversary Show (2025)
Found Footage Festival: 20th Anniversary Show (2025)
Overview
Ideas of Order is a 2025 documentary directed by Erin Espelie. The film explores the collision between collapsing ecosystems and the growth of bacterial colonies, focusing on cyanobacteria and themes of unrestrained expansion. Runtime: 71 minutes.
Starring Cast
Joe Pickett • Nick Prueher
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Not Rated
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
10.0
Overview
Ideas of Order is a 2025 documentary directed by Erin Espelie. The film explores the collision between collapsing ecosystems and the growth of bacterial colonies, focusing on cyanobacteria and themes of unrestrained expansion. Runtime: 71 minutes.
Starring Cast
Joe Pickett • Nick Prueher
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
Political: Leans Left
Confidence: High
The film's central focus on the macro-collapse of ecosystems and entropy embodies progressive environmentalism as its core concern. This thematic anchor determines the left-leaning orientation without explicit ideological advocacy.
Diversity: Not Rated
This experimental short film examines natural phenomena without human characters or actors, offering no visible representation of diverse identities and no narrative engagement with traditional or marginalized social roles.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: Medium
The film offers no depiction of family units, roles, or norms, instead examining ecological collapse, cellular behavior, and entropy through experimental documentary techniques. This absence of family content results in a neutral portrayal.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
The film presents no LGBTQ+ characters or themes, focusing instead on scientific observations of bacterial growth and environmental entropy.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
No transgender characters or themes appear in the film. It presents an experimental exploration of entropy, unrestrained growth, and microscopic life forms like cyanobacteria, which shaped Earth's oxygen levels but altered their environment.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Medium
Ideas of Order presents an original experimental work on cyanobacteria, ecosystems, and entropy, without adaptations, legacy characters, or human portrayals that could constitute gender swaps.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Medium
Ideas of Order is a documentary examining the microscopic world of bacteria and ecosystems through experimental nonfiction filmmaking, without portrayals of human characters from source material or history.
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