Secret of Water

Directed by Jirka Rysavy and Saida Medvedeva. Though water comprises more than 70 percent of the human body and the surface of our planet, few of us give much thought to how we treat it, and how it is affected by a surprisingly broad range of environmental factors-- much as we are. SECRET OF WATER invites us to consider the often extraordinary relationship between water and ourselves, and illustrates the surprising ways in which water responds to such intangible phenomena as thought and emotion. Drawing upon a broad range of interviews with scientists, thinkers and researchers, and traveling to exotic locations around the world, SECRET OF WATER expresses a point of view that is at once global and molecular. Among the many wondrous things its demonstrates is how positive words or harmonious music have a beneficial influence on water molecules while negative thoughts, emotions, harsh music, or even cell phones, have the opposite effect, transforming water molecules into smudged, distorted, formless shapes. Portraying water as a complex, living entity, it reveals a series of wondrous facts, ideas, and hypotheses, including the somewhat astonishing concept that water has the ability to “remember” anything with which it comes into contact. By showing us a new way of looking at the most common of all substances, SECRET OF WATER, by extension, shows us how to see the world, and ourselves, in uncommon ways.