Trees

This animation of trees begins with coastal Australian trees - pines, tea trees, turpentines and figs and moves slowly into the coastal hinterland spaces of eucalypts and banksias. Rain forest environments emerge and then individual trees standing alone. Single Australian trees blend into European trees and central European forests depicted as abstract chaos. Deciduous forests and pine forests appear in different seasons. Finally the scene returns to the southern continent with coastal myoporum lending its elements to a meditational field.
This short film is dedicated to the trees of the world which are disappearing all around the planet in cities and in rural areas at unprecedented rates - a process which threatens life forms as we know them on Earth. Trees are cleared away in cities like rubbish with a destructive power never known in history. The countryside is reduced to bald hills.
The film is dedicated to their beauty and the wealth which their wondrous qualities bring to existence.
The music is the piano sonata 31 opus 110 by Ludwig van Beethoven, played by Donald Betts via musopen (www.musopen.com).
This version is truncated to 10 minutes in length (the myoporum has been cut out and the end of the piano sonata). The full version can be seen at the dotAtelier blog or at dotatelier.blip.tv.
©Neil Horne and Rita Grewatsch 2008

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