Margie Gillis

Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly younger woman, Tula, he starts an affair with her, much to the chagrin of his wife, and his life is thrown into upheaval. Kitty kicks Nick out of the house, and he is forced to make some difficult decisions.

Terrarium unfolds through seven tightly woven perspectives projected across a double-screen film. Each character acts as a seedling, embodying urgent socio-ecological challenges and sparking alternative ways of seeing and responding to the world. These intertwined visions propose that meaningful solutions emerge through symbiosis—between human and non-human communities and with the socio-ecological environments we share.