Ori Gersht

Ori Gershi's interest in exploring landscaped embedded with both personal and historic resonance was the genesis for this film. The Forest surrounds Kolomyia, Ulkraine and is a remaining fragment of the once vast primeval forest that covered much of continental Europe. Much mythologized and idealised in the period of the Enlightenment, the area was to bear witness to appalling atrocities during World War II. Gersht's connection to the region is that his relatives were to find brief and harsh haven here from Nazi persecution. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella in association with 'The Photographers' Gallery, London.