Elisabeth von Samsonow 

ARTIST STATEMENT 

The lockdown can also be taken as another word for territorialization as everybody had to stay right at his or her place. Territorialization, unintential or intentional, means coming-back-to-one’s world, to reattach to a segment of the world. This film narrates qualities of this being-stuck-to-earth by means of the old Irish Alphabet of Trees, the Ogham. Each tree is a letter, a quality, something to interact with, something to incorporate. Old and new stories, trees and people, territories and poetry merge.