Guardians of Life The three-minute-long film
Guardians of Life is set in a well-equipped modern
operating theater where a surgeon and other medical staff are struggling to revive a dying patient. The patient's heart stops beating and with the team in agreement, they abandon their attempts, take off their face masks, and the surgeon declares the time of death. One of the nurses (
Q'orianka Kilcher), however, who has traditional
indigenous makeup under her face mask, begins old-fashioned, low-tech, manual
CPR and succeeds in resuscitating the patient. Finally the patient, hidden from the camera until now, is revealed to be the planet Earth – its continents ablaze with fire and clearly in a critical state. == See also ==