"The Chances of the World Changing" is a haunting, visually poetic two-year account of Ogust's attempts to save his turtles and restore his own material and emotional stability. The film begins with a passionate man who has exhausted himself as well as his financial resources, whose former career as a writer resides in the limbo of a storage bin, and whose personal life is almost nonexistent. It ends with Ogust trying to understand his decade-and-a-half experience of an alternative existence as he tries to reconnect with his pre-turtle existence. He is left unable to shake neither the chilling sense of animal species silently slipping into oblivion, and all that goes with them, nor the sheer physical presence and beauty of the animals that had once shared his every hour.
| Directed by | Eric Daniel Metzgar |
| Written by | Eric Daniel Metzgar |