Long For This World Film Upcoming

 Anti-aging

As a compendium to Jonathan Weiner's "Long For This World: The Strange Science of Immortatility, filmmaker David Anthony Alvarado has released preview clips of an upcoming film of the same name.  The film features gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, as well as Terry Grossman, Robin Hanson and many others.

Filmaker David Anthony Alvarado has uploaded a series of short documentary clips from a series entitled, "Long For This World," about the prospect of dramatically extending human lifespans.  No date has been provided for the release of the completed film, but the clips available provide tantalizing glimpses.

Like the Jonathan Weiner book with the same title, Long For This World features gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer of the SENS Foundation.

The dream of eternal youth has started to look like more than just a dream. In the twentieth century alone, life expectancy increased by more than thirty years—almost as much time as humans have gained in the whole span of human existence.

The Long For This World film clips follow an array of scientists, researchers, and entrepreneurs believe that another, bigger leap is at hand—that human immortality is not only possible, but attainable in our own time.

The dramatic story of how aging could be conquered once and for all, focuses on the ideas of those who believe aging is a curable disease. Chief among them is the de Grey, a garrulous Englishman who bears more than a passing resemblance to Methuselah (at 969 years, the oldest man in the Bible) and who is perhaps immortality's most radical and engaging true believer.

The film also features William Bains, Michael and William Andregg, Bill Andrews, Terry Grossman, Robin Hanson, and science fiction author Gregory Benford.












SOURCE  David Anthony Alvadaro on Vimeo

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