Tree stories - Nida, the forest regained

The story of the merciless revenge of wind and sand on man's excesses, the story of the natural rehabilitation of a site from which all life had begun to fade, the trees of Nida carry the memory of the Curonian Spit. The artificiality of nature is palpable. In the 17th century, the inhabitants of Nida cut down the original trees to supply the timber trade for the construction of warships. Under the effect of sand and wind, this massive exploitation led to an ecological catastrophe that the Curonian Spit took two centuries to overcome, thanks to a voluntarist policy of planting pine trees. Histoire d'arbres is a visual poem about the slow resurrection of a territory devastated by and because of man. At the dawn of the 20th century, this landscape, once known as the "Prussian Sahara", had once again become the "Pearl of the Baltic".