In the first episode of On the Beach, two filmmakers, Peter and Dwight, seek props and direction in the aisles of a department store, the words of physicists overseeing the Large Hadron Collider echoing in their heads. On the Beach is a series of videos that considers the relationship between the technologies pushing us toward collapse and the apocalyptic scenarios we incessantly invent. In subsequent episodes, the filmmakers encounter the Crypt of Civilization, a time capsule of cultural artifacts opening in 8113 AD; they explore the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a “final backup” of seed samples from crops around the world, stored within the permafrost of an Arctic mountain.