A Tale of a New Era unfolds in real time — a multi-year study (2025–2032) exploring whether human history follows the structure of a narrative arc.
Each year of the project produces a new documentary season — and a companion series of long-form essays that deepen, challenge, and test the ideas revealed on film.
This is not a retrospective theory, but a live experiment created inside the very turning point it seeks to understand. Through documentary, essays, and field notes written during the process, the project examines how meaning emerges across different scales — from individual experience to the long arc of civilization.
Created by Laurentius Paulus, A Tale of a New Era asks what it means to live inside a story that is becoming aware of itself.
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