SEDENTARY

a documentary. 30min. T R A I L E R.

How many hours a day do you sit?

Widespread and culturally enforced sedentarism is a relatively recent phenomenon, at the evolutionary scale, and a mounting volume of research since the 1950s consistently shows that “too much sitting” is – big surprise – bad for our health. How so? First time filmmaker E.J. Rosen explores this question in interviews with sedentary behavior researchers, chair designers, endocrinologists, school teachers, somatically informed design researchers, students, office workers, and more.  Moving from citation to conjecture, she asks: does school-enforced sedentarism train people into a state of dulled awareness against important physiological signals? In a harm reduction model in the current cultural system, what can we do differently? 

How many hours a day do you sit?