Introducing the Redwoods as Environmental Entities, sentient beings with rights to legal personhood. 

Blending transcendental style cinematography with Western science, The Sempervirens Alliance follows a hiker through the Redwood forests, up into the canopies, across the fog-laden skies, and down into the river as she contemplates time, consciousness, and interspecies communication with our more than human world.

The film is a conversation between the Redwoods and seven years of research, weaving together the science of plant sensing, decolonial politics, forest semiotics, multi-species anthropology, Indigenous methodologies, mycology, Umwelts, electromagnetism, phenomenology, theoretical physics, and human sensory mechanisms.  

Where there is communication, there is potential for translation.

Instead of speaking for the trees, The Sempervirens Alliance allows the Redwoods to speak through the film while simultaneously training audiences ways to listen, notice, and communicate with a forest.