THE SECOND LIFE OF BURNED TREES
Austria / 2023 / 6'
THE SECOND LIFE OF BURNED TREES
After the forest fires in the summer of 2022 sucked the life out of them, the trees emerge like silhouettes against the ocher backdrop of devastated olive groves as mere shadows of themselves – charred but imposing skeletons. Their deep-rooted, gnarled, crooked trunks and twisted branches bear witness to a symbiosis with the environment that has lasted for centuries. At the same time, they fire the imagination of their viewers who then, in the grotesque shapes and patterns, see something completely different – would-be faces and figures. Taking her role as animation artist, the director breathes new life into the motionless matter with the help of minimalistic effects – a blinking reptile, a snapping bird, and a man having a smoke – and produces an eco-horror meta-animation as clever as it is unpretentiously witty, one that finally puts a face on climate crisis.
Director: Anna Vasof
Script: Anna Vasof
Photography: Anna Vasof
Editing: Anna Vasof
Sound: Anna Vasof
Music: Anna Vasof
Production: Anna Vasof
Selected Filmography:
- Issues With My Other Half (2023)
- Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories (2022)
- Amazon Woman (2021)
- Hitting My Head on the World (2019)
- Things and Wonders 2227 (2018)
Festivals & Awards:
Wunsiedel – Grenzland Filmtage, Germany (2025), European FF, Pakistan (2024), IFSAK Short FF, Turkey (2024), Novi Sad FF, Serbia (2024), Athens IFF, Greece (2023)
Screening:
August 23 / 20:30 / Kurshumli out
Tickets:
- Buy tickets for live screening HERE.
