Treeline by Ruth Maclennan will screen across two events with Das Brotbaumregime in Arnsberg and Schmallenberg. 

Treeline screens twice on 17 September at Habbels, Schmallenberg, and once on 30 September at Kulturschmiede Arnsberg. Showing alongside Treeline is Grupo Experimental de Cine's 1974 animation En la selva hay mucho por hacer ('There is a lot to do in the jungle'), a story of wild animals who work together to plot their escape from a zoo.

Treeline is a collectively made film compiled from hundreds of hours of footage of forests submitted by people across the world. From a patchwork of disparate individual contributions (sent in by scientists, ecologists, artists and members of the public alike), Maclennan traces a sinuous green line that stretches from the wild woods of North America to the rainforests of the Amazon to the copses of middle England and the scrublands of Africa, as well as myriad places in-between. A paean to the beauty and majesty of trees, Treeline also echoes something of their form – putting out exploratory feelers, and drawing material from multiple sources to create an enveloping, overarching structure that is considerably more than the sum of its parts.

Treeline (2021) was co-commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and Forestry England. Supported by John Hansard Gallery and Hunterian, University of Glasgow.