Related Films

Naughty Guerrilla Filmmaking: Doing Good by Being Bad

2022 • USA • 120 min • Keil Orion

Filmmaker in Attendance, Subject in Attendance, Adult Language

Keil Orion Troisi, of notorious culture-jamming collective The Yes Men, presents funny and shocking documentary shorts that mix humor and mischief to plague evildoers and amplify environmental justice campaigns. Along the way, he discusses trickster-activism techniques, hacking media attention through low-budget/high-concept filmmaking, and how to undermine oppressive systems with humor, surprise, and play.

Snail Hunters

2025 • USA, Ecuador • 61 min • Jim Aikman

Family Friendly, Michigan Premiere

A team of evolutionary biologists from the University of Idaho travels to the Galápagos Islands to solve the Earth’s biodiversity crisis. The twist? They aren’t studying the iconic tortoises or blue footed boobies on this storied archipelago—they are Snail Hunters, studying a more unlikely subject in the crucible of evolution. By understanding the unique traits that make snails a champion of coexistence, the multi-disciplinary scientists hope to unlock a brighter future for humanity and the planet.

Total Disaster

2022 • USA/ France • 12 min • Keil Orion Troisi & Molly Gore

Filmmaker in Attendance, Subject in Attendance, Has Subtitles, Michigan Premiere

Armed with realistic bird puppets, trickster environmental activists pretend to be oil company Total—staging a satirical press conference to introduce “RéHabitat,” a program to rescue animals from the East African Oil Pipeline by relocating them to “more sustainable” habitats. Using humor and mischief, they expose a deadly ecological disaster in a zany effort to help #StopEACOP.