Evento

local sightings: Bury Me in Redwood Country

Sunday, Oct 4, 7pm
Bury Me in Redwood Country
(Benjamin Green, Benjamin Cameron, USA, 2009, 63min.)
The Redwood tree is a meditation on humility. Its species evolved ages before the emergence of man, persisting through the coming and going of dinosaurs. Many alive today are older than Christ. It is the tallest and largest tree on the planet, the scaffolding of vibrant micro-ecosystems, and constituent of a cathedralic spiritual aesthetic. Bury Me in Redwood Country takes us into that landscape, where people with deep associations with the trees live out their lives: Two naturalists who discovered the tallest known tree on the planet travel into an unknown basin to find and measure a 356 foot tall Redwood. The foremost redwoods scientist explains the fascinating biology of 'cathedral' trees. A 70-year old redwood logger trains for 100-mile ultra-marathons in the woods. And the oldest living Yurok tribal elder weaves baskets in accordance with her matrilineal tradition. We are left with an unavoidable realization that these ancient forests are silent witnesses of our transient lives and human history.