By Aurora’s Eye Films
A rare look inside Miraculous Productions’ wildly imaginative stage work, Compost Mentis.
Created by Aurora’s Eye, this documentary follows director Jesse and costume designer Jyotis as they build a world where bacteria are heroes, plastic is an obstacle, and the human brain becomes a battleground.
Originally written by Johnny in 2005, the story has been reimagined and rescripted for this production. At its core: a compost bin community in crisis. When their human stops separating organic and inorganic waste, plastic blocks access to food. Survival demands strategy.
A small bacterial strike team embarks on an audacious mission – from the edge of the bin, onto a fly, to the house cat, and into the human bloodstream via a scratch. Along the way they negotiate with the formidable Ninja Lymphocytes before confronting the Left Brain and Right Brain themselves. The goal: restore reason. Restore composting. Restore balance.
This documentary captures the precision of the directing process, the conceptual development of the costumes, and the creative mechanics behind staging microbes, immune warriors, and cognitive hemispheres – all while maintaining the play’s environmental urgency and wit.
A film about theatre-making.
A play about waste.
A story about changing minds.
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