We Have Already Lived Through Our Future—We Just Don’t Remember It is the result of months of filming over several seasons. It lies at the intersection between the factual, visual documentation of a place and what its history teaches us, and the mise-en-scène based on that other essential historical force, imagination. Imagination is embodied here by children from a forest kindergarten who live in and talk about the forest, imagining it and singing it, describing its own evolution and its relationship with humans and animals. Future actors in our relationship with nature, they are situated in the present, at the fold between the immensely long time span that precedes them and the possibilities of time in the making. In Orlow’s film, the children, in their being in the world still free of the despair that prevents action, represent the force capable of ‘bending the order of time’. Like plants and trees, they are in motion.