The Forest In Me
Synopsis
Rebecca E Marshall draws from footage she has shot over twenty years in an intimate address to her child in the future. She builds connections between Agafya Lykova, an elderly woman surviving alone in the Siberian forest who scares bears away by banging space-rocket debris, a crew simulating life isolated on Mars and her young child discovering the world minute by minute. This endlessly surprising journey offers up images that shake ideas of past, present and future to form a deeply tender vision of the timeless human connections that continue to weave through an increasingly divided world.
Xylouris White (drummer Jim White, Dirty Three; lutist Giorgos Xylouris and Guy Picciotto, Fugazi) provide a haunting original score.
Official Selection Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2024
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 69 min
- Format
- HD digital
- Director
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Rebecca E Marshall 1st Feature
- Producer
- Rebecca E Marshall
- Executive Producer
- Tracy O'Riordan
- Editor
- Rebecca E Marshall; Associate Editor: Daniel Passes
- Screenwriter
- Rebecca E Marshall
- Director of Photography
- Sarah Cunningham
- Sound
- Simon Keep, Rebecca E Marshall, Chu-Li Shewring
- Composer
- Xylouris White; Additional Music: Simon Keep
- Assistant Director
- Elena Andreicheva
- Translator
- Elena Andreicheva
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Dear Future Films
40 Baldslow RoadHastings
East Sussex
TN34 2EY
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