INS HOLZ (IN THE WOODS)

Directed by Thomas Horat, Corina Schwingruber Ilic · 2017

Every four years, a crew spends three winter months felling trees on a steep mountainside above Switzerland's Lake Ägeri, preparing the logs for rafting in a craft technology has never replaced.

A visceral symphony of snow, sweat and chainsaws, capturing a traditional Swiss logging craft that technology has never replaced.

Snow, sweat, testosterone and the sound of chainsaws. Every four years, over a period of three months in winter, wood is being cut in a steep mountain high above Lake Ägeri and prepared for log rafting. Neither economic

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