Stefan Hunt

A man got out of his shitty life thanks to a mysterious voice

Six young Aussie men drink beers from the afternoon well into the night. Using only movement in the way of back slaps, crowd surfs, and chokeholds, they manage to say everything without uttering a single word.

For many a millennia, us humans have gazed up at the stars, studied the sun, listened to the ocean and contemplated horizons in the quest to find that elusive, definitive purpose of our existence. So you can imagine how flabbergasted I was when a single tree in my local park struck up a conversation with me. No one believed me about the talking tree because I didn’t have my phone to Instagram it so my next best option was to recreate the life changing experience with this motion picture.

A genre-bending documentary using dance and physicality to explore themes of youthfulness, fear, regret and aging. The star of the show is New York. The perspectives of elderly citizens of NYC are interpreted physically by a younger generation. The words come from real-life interviews recorded with a diverse selection of aging New Yorkers.