
Keywords
- Austrian Films
- Award Winning
- Exclusive Docs: New Perspectives
- Forests/Deserts
- Topic: No Planet B
- economy
- natural
- north south
- sixpackfilm
Director
- Daniel Zimmerman
Documentary
1h 47min
16+
SV
The voyage of a tree from Europe to the Amazon is a silent wittness to global interdependencies and economic absurdities.
The voyage of a tree from Europe to the Amazon is a silent wittness to global interdependencies and economic absurdities.
A chainsaw noise cuts the silence in the monastery forest of Admont. This is the beginning of a tree's journey from Austria to the Amazon. By train, truck, boat and by hand, the wood is transported to a mysterious final destination in the middle of the Brazilian rainforest on the Rio Negro.
Thirteen extended 360° camera pans become a subtle and meditative commentary on the absurdity of the economic logic underlying our globalized world.
Past a total of 13 stations (forest, sawmill, customs), the camera follows the wood in finely composed 360° pans, along one of the central raw material trade routes, but paradoxically in the opposite direction of transport.