Wetlands dry out due to global warming. This makes it possible for trees to enter.
 

As Trees Go By explores and observes a pine tree for more than three years as it migrates from the forest into the Finnish Siikaneva bog. With staged, absurd and documentary images, the experimental film shows the tree as a climate refugee and activist through time and wanderer through time and space. 
 

The protagonists of the film are trees. Deeply rooted in the earth, they are considered a prime example of sedentariness and steadfastness. This is countered by scientific analyses that prove that forests adapt to the climate and actually move through landscapes and climate zones, but very, very slowly and over decades. However, the increasingly accelerating climate change is happening faster than the trees are given time to adapt or to flee to more suitable areas in order to survive. They need support and so “assisted migration” is a much discussed and present topic in science. However, these migrations also threaten to fail due to national borders, political upheavals and the rapid change of global systems.
 

Meanwhile, trees are moving north, climbing the Californian White Mountains in or migrating into peatlands.

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