“HOME” By Walter Stoehr

Synopsis

We need nature and nature in turn needs our understanding of its fragility.

Directors statement

"Home”. This word triggers a wide variety of associations. Most of these links are likely to be positive in nature. Thoughts about your own house or your childhood home may bring feelings of security and identification. Assuming the condition of this home deteriorates, the first logical response would be to stop this process. As soon as such decline begins to appear, action must be taken not to make the problem worse. If you allow too much time to pass, the initial damage could become irreparable. Regarding one‘s own home, this truth is firmly anchored in the mind, but as soon as it concerns our mutual home, the planet, the urgency to limit the damage seems to be significantly reduced.

In this short piece, the beauty of nature is contrasted with images that provide clear signs of decay. Pollution, poaching, deforestation. These are the attacks on our home. In the film we see ordinary people who are at one with their environment. The message: we need nature and nature in turn needs our understanding of its fragility. Our actions must be derived from this knowledge in order to protect what is our mutual home. Disagreeing with those who have already given up on spreading this message is worthwhile.

Especially in a time in which many of us  are bound to our houses and apartments we must not forget what is at stake beyond our four walls.

Credits

Director, Cinematographer: Walter Stoehr
Music and Sound Design: GINGERxMassiveMusic
Title and Graphic Design: Moritz Moysig

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