#tree walker

Film in collaboration with German artist/performer Christoph Both-Asmus, whose long-term installation project The Tree Walker served as trigger for this work. A man, interpreted by Kolja Kravchenko, wanders in the woods of the conflict zone of Transnistria—an unrecognized but independent strip of land between the River Dniester and the eastern Moldovan border with Ukraine. He climbs and walks atop the forest trees of Teufelsberg in Berlin. Underneath the hill there is a never completed Nazi military college. For the filmmaker, he personifies the vertigo of looking at reality, an act commonly described as foolish.