Still Life

An unconventional look at wildlife asks: how real is nature?

Trekking across 24,700 hectares of forest to visit remote ice-blue lakes, Still Lifepits reality against fiction; snowy white owls juxtaposed with taxidermy hares, stunned by flood lights in the dead of night.

“Not only are we looking at nature—it’s looking back at us”

Shot in Harz National Park, Germany, filmmakers Florian Fischer and Johannes Krell were inspired by the much-loved nature documentary format, hunting out theatrical dioramas of idealistic replicas found in natural history museums. "