Forests are everywhere in the Western imagination.
Perhaps because many things have happened in the forest: some have to do with law, others with language. All of them with relationships.
Forests | An evocation is a tale, a fiction. But it is also a ritual able to overturn the categories through which we think of the world, of our relationships and the political space in which we — all kinds of “us” — exist.
Mali Weil's first feature film -part of a larger project about “Forests”- collects the legacy of three years of research on the legal relationships that the West maintains - and has always had - with the physical and conceptual space of the forest.
It is a long journey across languages and formats, made of 2 performances, an audio installation, a design collection, essays and articles, a three-channels video and a visual series of flags. All these elements have given shape to both the visual and the narrative backbone of this philosophical tale.
Forests | An evocation is therefore a film, but it’s also an experience conceived to see and dream differently.