Nature is Metal

“Big Basin Will Never Be The Same“ is a short film created in the wake of the devastation of the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex Fire at California’s oldest state park, Big Basin. Utilizing a unique synchronized and continuous side-by-side before and after view of the fire’s destruction, this piece of non-verbal cinema uses only music to accompany the viewer through a mesmerizing and heart wrenching exploration of profound loss, grief, time, scale, and consequence. This footage is unlikely to exist in similar form anywhere or ever again and I hope to be able to make future iterations of this film to document the landscape over time. This footage will be donated to the archive at Big Basin SP and all proceeds will be split equally and donated to Friends of SC State Parks, The Mountain Parks Foundation, The Sempervirens Fund, and Save The Redwoods. I genuinely believe this footage has value to the public and should be seen if you love Big Basin, Santa Cruz, or are concerned with the ecological effects of climate