AV-Arkki

There was no room for other animals in the ark. The only one left is the king of creation, the worst of all animals, human.

The documentary takes the viewer on a serene afternoon stroll through the Japanese mental landscape and culture, with death and ageing as its perspectives.

A narrator asks: ‘Do you know this bird?’

What does she explain? Does she speak for herself?

From a Distance allows the forest animals to take the forefront, to be and observe. Humans do not report or explain, but are present only as sounds of passing cars or on a look-out in a bird tower – as if being part of a herd themselves.