In the heart of a reconstruction site of an apartment complex in Gangnam, Seoul, a metasequoia-lined path remains, like a small green island. Countless trees have been felled, how did they remain?
In Seoul, a symbol of Korea's rapid economic growth, hundreds of thousands of trees are cut down whenever there are urban development projects.
A personal project of remembering and recording the trees of my childhood expanded into the record of a community, inducing cit...more

In the heart of a reconstruction site of an apartment complex in Gangnam, Seoul, a metasequoia-lined path remains, like a small green island. Countless trees have been felled, how did they remain?
In Seoul, a symbol of Korea's rapid economic growth, hundreds of thousands of trees are cut down whenever there are urban development projects.
A personal project of remembering and recording the trees of my childhood expanded into the record of a community, inducing citizen’s voluntary participation and eventually growing into tree preservation activism.
As the logic of economy is destroying more and more trees, we are losing the right to even reminisce about the trees we grew up with. This is urban ecological destruction, or ecocide. Living in the Anthropocene, are we gradually losing our sensitivity to life?
This film has followed, over the past seven years, the fate of the trees that used to live on the green island, capturing their stories; it’s the story of the trees that were forced out of the city and the story of the people caring.less