‘REQUIEM FOR A FOREST’ is a poetic and unsettling meditation on environmental loss, memory, and transformation. Over the course of two years, choreographer and filmmaker Nathalie Larquet documented a forest near Wuppertal—first as a place of natural beauty and then as a site of devastation. What was once a sanctuary of stillness, inhabited by the rhythm of trees and wind, has turned into a barren battlefield—ravaged by drought, disease, and deforestation. The forest is gone.
In response, Larquet has created a multi-channel film installation featuring four dancers from her collective timefellows, filmed during the forest’s final seasons. Their movements are elegiac, echoing both the vitality of the forest and its disappearance. Through embodied gestures and subtle rituals, the performers carry the memory of the forest in their bodies. The choreography is sparse, tactile, and rooted in the landscape—branches become limbs, fallen trees become altars.
The work is not a documentary. It is a requiem.

With Julie Anne Stanzak, Ophelia Young, Scott Jenings, Pawel Malicki – Voice and text: Ophelia Young