Director & Executive Producer
Nora Bateson

Co-Producer & Editor
David Sieburg

Scriptwriter & Narrator
Nora Bateson

Production Studio
The Impact Media Group

Artwork & Animations
Carl Prescott

Motion Graphics
Mitch Temkin
David Sieburg

Online Editor
Donald Eldridge

Associate Producer
Matt Borer

Cinematographers
Eric Thiermann
Eric Goldstein
Nora Bateson
Kai de Fontenay
Gregory Bateson
Sarah McCleod
David Sieburg

Archival Footage
Kai de Fontenay
Milton Berger
The Naropa Institute
Footage of Gregory Bateson directed
in 1976 and 1977 by Robert Snyder
Masters & Masterworks
Productions, Inc.
www.mastersmasterworks.com

Archival Restoration
Monaco Labs
Video Arts

Music
“An Ecology of Mind”
Original music composed
and performed by:
Dan Brubeck, Miles Black,
Jack Duncan,
Rick Kilbourn, and Nora Bateson

Aqualactica
“Fractal Nativo”
“El Anillo del Tiempo”
“Canones”

Parry Music Library:
“Gamelan Theme No.1”

Research and Development
Nora Bateson
Nina Mullen
Megan MacIver
Indiana Vatikiotis-Bateson
Malia Vatikiotis-Bateson

Assistant Camera
Trevor Brubeck
Sahra Brubeck
Nina Mullen
Romilly Starr Grauer
Julia Angus

Photographers
Barry Schwartz
Gregory Bateson
Nora Bateson
Stewart Brand
Sahra Brubeck
Savannah Goldstein
Margaret Mead
David Sieburg
Horst Mayer

Sound Engineers
Anders Steele
Magic Sound Studios
Riverside Recording Studios
Justin Wong
Rick Kilbourn

Interviewees
Ralph Abraham
Lois Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson
Stewart Brand
Jerry Brown
Fritjof Capra
Terry Deacon
Tim Keanini
William Thompson

Content Consultants
Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson
John Bateson
Lois Bateson
Daniel Brubeck
Mark Engel
Phillip Guddemi
Tim Keanini
The Lindisfarne Fellows
Santa Cruz Special Collections
Bateson Idea Group
Bateson Archive Group
Alfonso Montuori
Steven Nachmanovich

Transcriptions
Kathy Jackson

Special Thanks
Mary Lou Addor, Charlie Andison, Jose Barcelona, Lois Bateson, Gary Bloom, Rachel Boughton, John Brockman, Daniel Brubeck, Dave & Iola Brubeck, D Lynn Bush, Hans Butenschon, Dani Capri, Shauna Cepela, Center for Creative Inquiry, Jim Cochran, Bateson Idea Group, Mark Engel, Esalen Institute, Larry Farb, Gordon Feller & The Urban Age Institute, Lorenzo Fortunati, Toni Garret, Bryan Gates, Molly & David Governor, Stan & Christina Grof, Jan Hearthstone, Barry & Cyd Heisler, Al Huong, Institute for Intercultural Studies, Jeanie Iams, Sofia Georgiadou, Peggy Goodale,Carol Jaffe, Richard & Rose Jeweler, Sean Kearney, Pauline Kirby, Dong Ku Kim, Rebecca King, Timothy Kockanski, Howard Kornfeld, Doug Kramer, Stephen Schoen, Romilly Starr Grauer, James & Sharon Krause, Nina & Jo Lambert, Jonathan Larson, David Leventhal, Allison & Jeff Lux, Jason Magna, Seth Miller, Tom Munnecke, Michael Murphy, Dulce Murphy, Sybil Meyer, Justin Nolan, Pelican Point Inn, Barbara Pesavento, Jack Petranker, Robyn Jardine-Randel, Eloisa Rosas, Anton Stellamans, Leesley Stoller, Giles Taylor, Mahavi Tembe, Skip Thomas, Jeremey Trombley, San Francisco Zen Center & Tassajara, David Walden, Mark Watts, Carol Wilder, Aleksandra Wolska

Thank you to all of the countless people who made this project possible.

Director Biography

Nora Bateson is a media producer and educator. Her work includes documentaries, multimedia productions, magazine columns, and developing curriculum for elementary and high school students. Central to all her pursuits is the idea of utilizing media and storytelling to encourage cultural understanding, social justice, and environmental awareness.

Ms. Bateson currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she is developing a curriculum to accompany the film (centering on epistemology and systems thinking), as well as compiling a book of her father's unpublished works. These projects, along with public speaking engagements, have been part of a renewed interest in Gregory’s work, which has until now been largely inaccessible to those outside the academic community. She travels internationally giving lectures and workshops on her father’s work, and recently published three pieces in Kybernetes, a cybernetics and systems journal.

Ms. Bateson has a steadfast dedication to the possibilities of human evolution, starting with encouraging young children to see the interrelatedness of the natural world with that of the “human-made” world using all media. She developed curricula for several schools in Northern California focused on the formation of teenage identity. Her curriculum, Human Relations, for 7th-12th grade students, integrates self-discovery, relationships, social justice, mythology, environmentalism, and sex education through accountability, interconnectedness, and personal evolution. One principal wrote, “Nora’s Human Relations course gave our students an opening to an unshakable sense of belonging in a profound and sacred world. Not only was this one of the most important courses they will ever take, but they also loved it…”

Her degrees are in Southeast Asian Studies and filmmaking, bringing a cross-cultural perspective to her filmic voice. Her other work includes research and development for a documentary about legendary jazz musician Dave Brubeck; creative direction of the acclaimed CD-ROM 4 Paws of Crab (a narrative Thai cookbook), about witch Mark Potts of the Washington Post wrote, “One of the best looking new products at Mac World… an example of how good CD-ROM design can create a new medium that’s hard to categorize in traditional terms”. Ms. Bateson also developed a series of storytelling videos, entitled Stories Across Generations; and a series of columns for Seventeen Magazine.