Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (2009)

Daïchi Saïto · 10 min · Letterboxd ↗

The film explores familiar landscape imagery Saïto and Goldstein share in their neighbourhood at the foot of Mount-Royal Park in Montréal, Canada. Using the images of maple trees in the park as main visual motif, Saïto creates a film in which the formations of the trees and their subtle interrelation with the space around them act as an agent to transform viewer’s sensorial perception of the space portrayed

Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis screens once in London: ICA, Saturday 28 November at 18:00.