This talk critically examines progressive European calls to return to precolonial, precapitalist forms of commoning as way of countering contemporary climate collapse and progressive calls to rethink the common outside its Eurocentric humanist parameters. Povinelli has begun calling this, the white counterreformation, a way of co-opting decolonial critique to rebound a Eurocentric order. The talk approaches this counterreformation through a Karrabing Film Collective project called “Rising Tides/Melting Glaciers.” This project reads her ancestral “Simonaz” Povinelli and “Barrukh” Ambrosi clans’ relation to their ancestral lands and rock ‘witches and devils in Carisolo, Trentino, Italy via the ancestral present of a set of Karrabing relations to their geographic kin at Mabaluk, Northern Territory, Australia. ‘Rising Tides/Melting Glaciers” is not a comparative history or ontology. It reads ancestral maneuvers in the region of her ancestral village through a Karrabing perspective, asking how the return to commons disavows, or not, the ongoing terraformations of the colonial catastrophe.