a couple of weeks ago, i went back out into the forest to shoot insert shots for my grad film at emily carr university, make me stronger - a short film about a young woman uncovering a traumatic childhood memory. (i'll be making regular trips there from now until the end of post-production.) the forest in question - pacific spirit - is located close to the thick of vancouver, but go just a few minutes out into the forest and you could be days and weeks and months away from the city.

except for the soundscape:

traffic. airplanes. dogs. bikes.

all the aural borders are defined by city. you can't forget where your place is - that just outside the forest is vancouver.

the challenge now is to make this noise of the world feel outside human control.