Walden

Somewhere in an Austrian forest birds are cheerfully chirping. When suddenly the idyll is broken as a chainsaw screeches into action and cuts into the trees and brings a fir tree to the ground. After the wood has been processed into 1000 strips, it is taken on a long journey – train, ship and truck – which eventually ends in the heart of the Brazilian rainforest, of all places. How do we deal with our own habitat on a daily basis? With his precisely choreographed film shot using thirteen 360-degree cameras, director Daniel Zimmermann comments in a meditative and subtle way on the absurd economic logic of our globalised world, as well as the way in which natural resources are being handled.