This film was made in protest against deforestation for development. I used the strangler fig as a mataphor for this film.
Strangler fig ( ficus) is the common name of several species of the fig that begin their lives as epiphytes as their seeds lodge in the cracks & crevices of the bark of a host tree. The seeds germinate & send out air roots. During this initial phase the plant grows comparatively slowly. Gradually the roots wrap around the host tree, widen, and slowly form foliage which soon overshadows the tree. Each air root takes in nutrients & water from the air & host tree. Eventually the air roots grow to reach the ground & develop their own underground root system, independent of the host tree. At this point the tree begins to grow very quickly, often covering the host tree with it's own trunk & strangling it. The host tree is forced to compete for water & light & prrevented from growing by the stranglers EMBRACE on it's
trunk. Eventually the host tree faces DEATH.This film was made in protest against deforestation for development. I used the strangler fig as a mataphor for this film.
Strangler fig ...all »This film was made in protest against deforestation for development. I used the strangler fig as a mataphor for this film.
Strangler fig ( ficus) is the common name of several species of the fig that begin their lives as epiphytes as their seeds lodge in the cracks & crevices of the bark of a host tree. The seeds germinate & send out air roots. During this initial phase the plant grows comparatively slowly. Gradually the roots wrap around the host tree, widen, and slowly form foliage which soon overshadows the tree. Each air root takes in nutrients & water from the air & host tree. Eventually the air roots grow to reach the ground & develop their own underground root system, independent of the host tree. At this point the tree begins to grow very quickly, often covering the host tree with it's own trunk & strangling it. The host tree is forced to compete for water & light & prrevented from growing by the stranglers EMBRACE on it's
trunk. Eventually the host tree faces DEATH.«
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