A MEDITATION ON AN ANIMISTIC LANDSCAPE

Script, Director, Photography, Editor: Wolfgang Lehmann

Music: Melisa Aller

Aspect ratio: 16:9

b/w & color

61 minutes, 56 seconds

Sweden / Argentina 2025

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1026107205

The entire work (music and film) negates the dramaturgy of storytelling and sees itself as a visual and musical composition. The film is not meditative in a clichéd sense.

The main characters of the film are an imaginary forest and the sea.

The forest is the lungs of our world. According to mythology, the forest also has a soul; we know little about this, but we do know that trees live and communicate with each other. The film sometimes works with kaleidoscopic, ornamental images. The concept of the film is to trigger different feelings in the audience. Every viewer has their own experiences and, depending on their willingness to engage with the work, will also have different thoughts and perceptions when viewing it.

Intellectually, the work is inspired by an essay by Julien Offray de La Mettries from 1747, as well as by ideas from pantheistic and animistic worldviews. Although Julien Offray de La Mettries himself did not believe in the existence of the soul or other phenomena not visible to science, one thing was clear to him: if, contrary to his assumption, a soul does exist, it is found in humans, animals and also in plants.