Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind

This film, a fusion of hand-painted imagery and photographic techniques, serves as a comprehensive exploration of the themes present in DOG STAR MAN. In that earlier epic, I had envisioned The World Tree as deceased, suitable only for kindling; and at the conclusion of DOG STAR MAN, I had felled it amidst a whirlwind of stars (culminating in Cassiopeia’s Chair). Now, many years later, I am driven to perceive YGGDRASILL as rooted within the intricate electrical synapses of the thought process, to feel its vitality in the present day as keenly as when Norse mythology first conceived it. I share this compulsion with Andrei Tarkovsky, whose final film, The Sacrifice, strives to resurrect The World Tree through narrative, whereas I merely present—one might almost say "document"—a moving graph that approximates my own thought process, through which The Tree establishes its roots as the stars we, in reflection, embody.