The Amaranth is an open-ended--and possibly infinite--movie produced and presented in parts by Chattanooga filmmaker Jarrod Whaley. New, sequentially numbered parts appear from time to time on Whaley's Web site, viewable either directly on the Web or via a video podcast (see this page for a link to the feed). Largely unscripted and improvised, each part builds upon the direction taken in the last, so that the overarching story of this non-finite film seems to write itself in a very real way. The Amaranth, Volume 1--a 90-minute feature consisting of the first 20 parts--is, then, the first segment of a larger, longer work (of as-yet undetermined length), though to some extent it also stands alone, just as would be the case with the first feature-length installment of a traditional film trilogy, for example.

Synopsis:
When an ordinary man plants a seemingly ordinary seed in an ordinary terra cotta pot, he sees the world around him begin to change in startling--and often frightening--ways. The seed's germination begins to incite as well as mirror the changes taking place in the man's life, leading him on a metaphysical journey toward a more fruitful phase of existence.