Two Forests
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Two Forests reflects on the end of human life and the final disposal: aging and death. The setting is the aging and ailing Japan and its forest-related death myths. The first forest is Aokigahara on the northwestern flank of Mount Fuji, the quiet and idyllic ‘Sea of Trees’, where Japanese people have gone to end their lives for thousands of years. The other forest is Obasute, a mountain where, according to legend, elderly people who had become a burden were taken and left to die.
DIRECTOR: Jan Ijäs
SCRIPTWRITER: Jan Ijäs
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jan Ijäs, Ville Piippo
SOUND: Svante Colérus
EDITING: Jan Ijäs
MUSIC: Julian Lynch
PRODUCER: Jan Ijäs
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Atalante
Director

Jan Ijäs
Media artist and film director Jan Ijäs (b. 1975) studied documentary filmmaking at the Aalto University in Helsinki. He works with documentary, fiction, and experimental films. His production borders avant-garde film, experimental media art, contemporary art, and documentary film. His films have been screened widely in Finnish and international film festivals and as installations in museums and art galleries. He has won numerous industry awards, including the Finnish Risto Jarva Prize, the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition Jury Award, and the Amnesty International Award from the Indielisboa Film Festival.
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