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Pan Genesis explores ideas of Darwinian Feminism by following a tribe of female-dominated, peaceful Bonobos who take in a chimpanzee from a male-dominated, aggressive tribe. Through this chimpanzee’s immersion into Bonobo society and eventual expulsion, the audience examines humanity’s own issues with gender-politics, female sexuality, sexual fluidity, violence, aggression, our capacity for cooperation, and our...
Pan Genesis explores ideas of Darwinian Feminism by following a tribe of female-dominated, peaceful Bonobos who take in a chimpanzee from a male-dominated, aggressive tribe. Through this chimpanzee’s immersion into Bonobo society and eventual expulsion, the audience examines humanity’s own issues with gender-politics, female sexuality, sexual fluidity, violence, aggression, our capacity for cooperation, and our relationship with nature. A story of two different types of apes, both our closest biological relative, becomes a looking glass through which we examine our own capacity for self-interested destruction vs. our capacity for care and cooperation; and asks which will define humanity’s future.