This elegant film uses the natural world to wrap an ancient context around contemporary politics and the former Australian Greens leader’s drive to save the environment
here’s a double meaning in the title of Laurence Billiet and Rachael Antony’s new documentary: Australia’s giants of ecological activism – one in particular, the former Greens leader– and the kind that are made of wood and rooted in the ground. The film opens with vision from Tasmania’s Styx Valley of eucalyptus regnans, the tallest flowering plants on Earth. These trees are, as Brown puts it, “bigger than any of the dinosaurs … bigger than the blue whales” and “rooted in Australian soil”.
This pairing of such majestic images with Brown’s commentary introduces this inspiring and elegantly crafted film’s two core elements, wrapped together like a double helix: Brown’s story and the story of the trees. The former is easier to tell than the latter, with Brown on board to reflect on his life along with the likes of his twin sister, Jan, who remembers her brother as a “sensitive, shy, intelligent” child who was “a bit of a dreamer”.
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