The Sadness of the Trees
(2015)Synopsis
Two separate, yet poetically connected films that act as a threnody on nature; with the trees as silent observers to Man's insidious desolation.
Part I
A film by Mikel Guillen for Hiroshi Sugimoto
Part 2
A film by Scott Barley for Vija Celmins
Sound design for parts I & II, and original composition: The Night's Kiss by Scott Barley
Two separate, yet poetically connected films that act as a threnody on nature; with the trees as silent observers to Man's insidious desolation.
Part I
A film by Mikel Guillen for Hiroshi Sugimoto
Part 2
A film by Scott Barley for Vija Celmins
Sound design for parts I & II, and original composition: The Night's Kiss by Scott Barley
Technical Information
12 minutes
16:9 aspect ratio
2K resolution
5.1 surround sound
Shot on DV & iPhone 6 Plus, with multiple re-photographs
Edited with Final Cut Pro X
12 minutes
16:9 aspect ratio
2K resolution
5.1 surround sound
Shot on DV & iPhone 6 Plus, with multiple re-photographs
Edited with Final Cut Pro X
Stream
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In Production
The Emerald Fire
Within Without Horizon
The Flesh
The Sea Behind Her Head
Released
2020
To the Moon
2019
Wind
2017
Womb
Passing
The Green Ray
Sleep Has Her House
2016
Hinterlands
Closer
2015
Blue Permanence/Swan Blood
Hunter
The Sadness of the Trees
Shadows
Evenfall
Hours
2014
Polytechnique
Ille Lacrimas
2013
Nightwalk
Irresolute
Retirement
GLASS | TRUTH
2012
The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold
Untitled
Unreleased
2017
Eviscerations
Midnight
Starless / Mouths in the Grass / Lustre to Void
Fugue
Painting (I)
2015
Death is a Photograph
Too Young to Die
