To the Burning World, a remediation of fugitive magenta 16mm film from the BC Archives. It is a re-edit of Kelly Duncan’s 1978 film To Build a Better World. The story told by the original film suggests that British Columbia’s forests and plywood industry would have transformative and enduring effects across domestic and industrial worlds. The film promotes capitalist extractivist economies based on timber resources. Following the logic of progress found in the film, this future promises efficient and strong building practices and forest management to be carried out in standardized and predictable ways. In the summer of 2018, while skies over British Columbia glowed magenta and the air was choked with smoke from burning forests, we reworked To Build a Better World to create the digital film loop that slowly layers onto itself until all form is obscured. Our reworking of the magenta film was meant to evoke the extent to which utopian views of natural and industrial worlds have not been realized in the present. They imperil forest ecosystems. Colonial forest management practices began with the seizure of Indigenous lands, harvesting of old-growth trees, and subsequent monoculture replantings and urbanization. One way we experience the effects of these practices today is through climatic destabilization and the chaos of high-temperature forest fires. To the Burning World, presents the idea that the utopian promise of standardization to create “better worlds” (and lasting images of them) has failed to contain the world’s complexity and to acknowledge the fugitivity of all things” (Smith and Hennessy 2020, VIsual Anthropology Review).