SXSW Film: ’The Atomic Tree’ is a VR Journey into the Memories of a 400-Year-Old Tree

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From directors Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Adam Loften comes a virtual reality experience that will take audiences into the memories of a 400-year-old tree. Not just any ancient tree, but a Japanese White Pine bonsai that survived the atomic blast in Hiroshima. The Atomic Tree is a ten-minute VR journey that will have its world premiere at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival.

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Synopsis: The Atomic Tree is a journey into the memories of one of the most revered trees in the world’s 400-year-old Japanese White Pine bonsai that witnessed and survived the atomic blast in Hiroshima. From Japan’s ancient cedar forests and Buddhist temples to the family home in Hiroshima where the pine was nurtured for five generations, this VR experience explores the unbroken chain of living stories held within the rings of this tree. The delicate shape of this bonsai contains sacred forests, human family, and deep time, inviting us to reflect on the living strands of kinship that are woven between human and non-human worlds.

Festival-goers can experience The Atomic Tree in the Virtual Cinema section at JW Marriott – Griffin Hall. It will be open to the public from 11:00 am – 6:00 pm from Monday, March 11th through Wednesday, March 13th. Read more on the film’s page.

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