I AM THE EARTH

I wanted to create a film that evokes the feeling I believe a lot of us get when we are in the mountains, and also when we are not. The desire to return, to move on the trails again, to feel the weight and presence of those massive natural monuments that have stood for millions of years, reshaping themselves over time, always in motion, even if we can't always see it

The contrast between their slow, constant evolution and the briefness of our own lives both overwhelms me and inspires me. That sense of time stretching far beyond us, of space that doesn't need us to exist, and yet offers itself fully when we enter it is beautiful to me. 

I think a lot of us can find a kind of peace, or clarity, a reason to keep moving in that knowledge of something much larger, older, more permanent than ourselves, especially when we can move within it. And it is also a reminder of our humanness, and maybe even our reason for being.

Because we are not separate from nature, not deep down. And I think we have forgotten that. And maybe, to begin solving the things that trouble us, the loneliness, the disconnection, the endless noise, we don’t need to look forward, or elsewhere, but we simply need to return. To go back to nature, to the wild, to the discomfort, but also to the rewards within it. To let it remind us who we are, who we aren’t, and who we can be.