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Ireland | 2016 | 93 minutes | Lorcan Finnegan

In this psychologically tense slice of hallucinogenic eco-horror, a land surveyor on a secretive mission in a remote and unnamed Irish forest begins to have strange visions after his equipment goes haywire, leading him suspect that someone—or something—is lurking in the woods.

When Eric is hired to survey a small plot of rural land for a property developer, he hopes it will be the financial break he so desperately needs. His business is near bankruptcy, his family-life strained, and the passionate affair he has been having with his assistant, Olivia, has cooled. At first, the job looks to be almost too easy, but Eric finds the forested landscape to possess a weirdly disorienting genius loci—shifting silhouettes and shadows barely glimpsed yet always present—a sinister, spectral intelligence at play. Shortly before Olivia arrives to aid him, Eric makes the acquaintance of Gus, a charismatic local squatter who has his own strange accounts of the remote woods: how the previous inhabitant of Eric's cottage sought to communicate with a presence he believed inhabited the area, leaving behind a bizarre manuscript entitled, "Knowledge of Trees". As Eric and Olivia struggle to complete the survey, fear and paranoia take root in Eric's psyche, increasingly drawing him into the mysterious, ethereal wilds. In his feature film debut, director Lorcan Finnegan crafts a eerie eco-nightmare, employing creepy chiaroscuro cinematography to transmute the deep dark woods into a theatre of cosmic Lovecraftian horror.

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