WALDEN

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.