Feature Documentary • Playing With Fire - Trailer​

Beginning with an evacuation from Boulder Creek during the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex fires in Northern California, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens craft a cinematic reckoning with the power of fire… with its capacity to heal and its potential to destroy.

 

Enlisting a collective of artists, Indigenous elders, witches, formerly incarcerated firefighters, and educators, the film examines the ways in which queers (and other humans too, of course) can support the health of the Earth. Partially narrated by Boulder Creek’s mythical white peacock Albert and culminating in a ceremonial Wedding to Fire in the Redwoods, Playing with Fire is a powerful portrait of queer resilience in the face of a world in flames.