Digital Film/video
7 minutes, 30 seconds

The Forest, the Punan, & the Tree Dress connects us to the Cave Punan, the last known mobile hunter-gatherers in Borneo and probably all of Asia, whose ancestors have lived as forest stewards for thousands of years. Their way of life and the forests they depend on, are being threatened by logging and the expansion of palm oil plantations. Artist Vibeke Sorensen is working with the Nature Conservancy and anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing to support their claim to their ancestral forests which contain the greatest terrestrial biodiversity on our planet. The Tree Dress brings the agency of the digital arts and technology field to efforts to save their way of life and the ecosystem that sustains them, and by extension our collective humanity and natural environment.

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