The Great Tree Piece
What makes a tree a tree? What form can an encounter with it take? And what does the tree itself have to do with what we see? Claudia Larcher's film The Great Tree Piece addresses important questions that reveal themselves as soon as we begin to contemplate the endlessly complex relationship between humans and nature. The film consists of a single tracking shot from the crown of a tree to the underground, where humus, fungi and roots act as world makers in the darkness. The perspectives that emerge during this movement along the tree fan out in a myriad of ways. As...
Orig. Title
Das große Baumstück
Das große Baumstück
Year
2023
2023
Country
Austria
Austria
Duration
10 min
10 min