Movie Details
Original Language:French
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Affordance
DirectorJean-Michel Rolland
6 minDocumentary
Plot
Nature to be commanded must be obeyed Francis Bacon Around a low tree with twisted branches a man seeks to rest He doubles up One lifts its paw clings to a branch the other sits on an uncomfortable curve like a monkey trying to make its nest There are three now then four to explore the possibilities for action offered by the plant This tree was waiting for him The character stretches hangs lengthens He becomes one with the tree and settles there promising to visit it without hurting it Of course the tree is instrumentalized by becoming a chair or a bed but no one cuts off its branches or assembles them to make them useful The tree remains a tree it becomes a temporary shelter the act is reversible and once the visitor has left it will resume the course of its peaceful life living being among the living
