Between
the Ice Ages:
Mother
Forest sketches --
... toward a possible experimental film embracing in part the fragile, endangered
U.S. forest
We're sketching out a possible film that would include a
segment on the Applachian mixed-mesophytic forest and its
challenges. The Cumberland forest is said to have served as the mother
provider of hardwood trees and forest life for the North American
continent for 150,000 years but now has been decimated and fragmented
by logging, development, mining, air and water contamination, pulp and
chip mills, rock quarrying and invasive species.
I try to describe the rationale for this in the 8-minute
clip, above. (A lower-bandwidth version
is here.)
* Below,
is a sketch of an early morning rain and threatening storm.
* On
Page 2 of these prelim sketches, with Eileen and our
rescued dogs Mercury and
Jillie, is light-hearted a six-minute video of a late
April hike
through a trail in the Savage Gulf State Natural Area in south central
Tennessee to Savage Falls. The area is a mixed mesophytic forest
preserve.
* On
Page 2 also
is a
two minute sketch of dogwood trees blooming back
of where we live, during and after a brief storm, with woodland sounds along a
power-line right-of-way.
* On Page 3 are two more sketches,
one of dew, leaves, flowers, our two dogs, audible birds - 2 minutes;
and the other a reflection on Jaques Rivette's "La Belle Noiseuse," the
rain, creativity, and the potential for disaster, 4 minutes.
* On Page 4 is
"Three Tones," 3 minutes 49 seconds, experimental sketches to
discern possible visual and audio tone moods for "Between the Ice
Ages."
(VIdeos © 2008 Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing.)