Confronted with her husband’s declining health, Carrie Radomski dedicates herself to building Canada’s first cryonics facility, convinced that preserving the human body after death may one day allow families like hers to reunite.

Documentary | 87 mins | Canada

Synopsis

RELAX, OPEN YOUR EYES dives deep into the world of cryonics with privileged access, as a young family in Western Canada throws themselves fully into building a facility to help them live forever - The Futurist Club. We follow Carrie Radomski as she travels across the US, then to Spain and Switzerland, to research and train with cryonicists who are trying to hack mortality. We step into the world’s top facilities where hundreds of people (and some pets) are cryogenically frozen, and contemplate the question of whether to freeze just your head or your entire body. We enter cutting edge research centres that are mapping the human brain to attempt an alternative to cryonics, through chemical preservation and mind uploading to the cloud. We travel with Carrie as she trains in medical response protocols and see her beliefs and dedication tested along her journey that spans 3 years. Carrie’s grassroots mission to build a hometown cryonics centre is driven by her husband’s escalating health problems, a dedication to her ‘forever family’, and growing cryonics community. Carrie and cryonicists at large believe death is an engineering problem to be solved, but the path to solving it tests her closest relationship and threatens to rupture the cryonics community.

Producing & Creative Team

Director - David Ehrenreich

Producer - Michael Tanko Grand

Executive Producers - Justin Stockman, David Ehrenreich, Victoria Lean, Michael Grand

Associate Producer - Jemma Titheridge

DOP - Caleb Ford

Editors - Tony Kent, Hart Snider

Composer - Edo Van Breemen

Funders

The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit

Telefilm Canada

Bell Media’s Crave

Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia

Canada Media Fund

Production Company

Grand Scheme Productions

Distribution

Game Theory Films (Canada)