The quest
Root — all heart — longs to experience everything: to live as a butterfly, a carpenter, a fish.
Aril — all mind — has grown weary of the endless roles they play across the countless theatres of Eternalmoor, each offering new plots and fleeting moments to collect, yet no answers to the greater questions of the universe.
In a search for truth, self-discovery, and meaning, they are lured inside another theatre — this time cast as a haunted yew tree, a symbol of life and death, growing in the garden of a family who turns stories of the departed into humble works of art.
The experience reshapes Aril’s understanding of her bond with Root and her elusive mentor and trickster, Mr. Blackbird — offering her the ultimate answer to what she truly is beneath all the costumes — but is it a truth she’s ready to face?
A tender meditation on the quiet battle between intellect and intimacy — the mind’s need to retreat, and the heart’s need to reach out.
1980
I’m four years old.
The concept of reality is puzzling to me.
I carry with me experiences of something ultra real, yet something that is hard to fit into my everyday life.
I want to leave my stupid, cancer-might-relapse meat-sack of a body-costume behind and return to Eternalmoor.
I want to stay and see my soon-to-be little sister grow up.
I share my musings with Blackbird, my ever-present childhood friend. I identify as Aril — a girl on a scientific quest, haunted by tangled thoughts. I identify as Root — an untamed, loving heart.
They both live inside me, debating. Arguing.
This movie is born from those musings.
/The storyteller
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