
Using footage shot on location, Margit Lukács and Persijn Broersen created a digital “back-up” of the disappearing forest, converting two-dimensional photographic documentation into a three-dimensional environment that forms the backdrop for the performance of Iranian opera singer Shahram Yazdani. He has created a Persian interpretation of Nat King Cole’s 1948 hit song “Nature Boy.” In his version a wise tree is talking to a wandering lost boy, as an antithesis to the often imperialist relationship with nature in Western culture. The overwhelmingly magical and picturesque world we enter in the beginning of the film gradually gets deconstructed in layered, fragmented parts of the digital representation.