The Giants
A Cinematic Portrait
THE GIANTS is a poetic, cinematic portrait of Bob Brown intertwined with the life of trees.
THE GIANTS explores the intertwined fates of trees and humans in this cinematic portrait of environmental folk hero and gay icon Bob Brown who took green politics to the centre of power. From a seedling to forest elder THE GIANTS interweaves Bob’s story with the life cycle of the ancient trees he is fighting for.
The hidden life of the forest is brought to screen by cameras rigged high in the tree canopy; immersive point cloud animation generated from 3D tree scans; and thought-provoking insights by the likes of David Suzuki, Merlin Sheldrake and David Lindenmayer. Drawing on Bob’s lifetime of activism, from the Franklin to the Tarkine, THE GIANTS ignites an urgent conversation about the right of the Forest to exist and challenges the audience to write the next chapter.
BOB BROWN
“This is civil disobedience. It’s an obedience to nature.” – Bob Brown.
As both an activist and a politician Bob Brown has continued to take a courageous, and often politically lonely, stand on issues across the national and international spectrum.
THE FOREST
The film goes from Bob’s story, the human story, to the story of the Trees – one which scientists are only starting to understand. THE GIANTS showcases ground-breaking research to reveal the Forest as a complex, intelligent, mass living organism. The stories of Bob and the trees are interwoven through narrative themes – such as childhood and community – revealing our commonalities, and how deeply our fates are entwined.
The film is also a great piece of political and social history with a fervent and urgent call to the public to get involved with environmental activism.
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