Young Pines

Young Pines grew out of three trips to Japan between May 2009 and November 2010 Invited to Japan for a series of film screenings I began filming in Yokohama Tokyo and Kanazawa Even in the big cities I experienced how strongly the Japanese feel connected to nature and how they tend to see no contradiction between culture and nature I found this stimulating and in harmony with some of my own impulses I wanted to return and film more in other seasons In Spring 2010 I visited Kamakura Kyoto and Nara in November I went Northeast and filmed in Matsushima Tono Miyako in Atsumi Yamadera and Nikko All of my film images have been filmed before the disaster of the Tsunami and Fukushima but the final editing was done in the following months