Trees that walk is a documentary based on an idea of the Italian writer Erri De Luca and it was filmed in Trentino and Puglia, Italy. This documentary wants to recount the life of the trees and their deep relationship with people that every day work hard to give to the wood a second life. What happens in this second life of the wood, when it becomes boats for sailing and musical instruments for playing... The trees is the opposite of movement: it dies where it's born. But there exists a second life that starts as soon as its saps stop flowing inside its vessels: forests became fleets that explored the world's geography while writing the Romance of the Earth.—Anonymous
Trees That Walk is a documentary based on an idea from the Italian writer Erri De Luca. He starts narrating the episode ( in the Gospel of Mark) of the blind man of Bethsaida brought to a young healer, Jesus. He is asked to free the blind man from his eternal night. Jesus spits into the lightless sockets. Suddenly the blind man sees: the first thing is the people around him. The vision is so compelling that he proclaims them to be "trees that walk." The body is a tree trunk, the arms are branches, and the legs are roots on the move. The pages of Mark have forever fixed a pronouncement: "I can see men, trees that walk." For De Luca, the human race knows little of visions. It does not rise to the level of trees; it stays the size of a bush, fighting for turf. Trees That Walk recounts the life of trees, along with their deep relationship with those people that work hard with it each day, giving them a second life. Wood becomes boats for sailing or musical instruments for playing. This "second life" starts as soon as the sap stops flowing inside its vessels. Its magic is not merely that wood burns and offers a campfire for warming the humankind. Its highest quality is that it can float. Wood became a bow, a rudder, an oar. As a trunk, it was hoisted upward to become the mast helping a sail to capture the wind. Forests thus became fleets that explored the geography of the planet while writing all the great romances of the earth. Ulysses, Sindbad, Magellan, Vasco da Gama, Cook, each of these climbed aboard trees that "walked" the seas. The documentary was filmed through Italy, on locations from Trentino in the north to Puglia in the south.
