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How to Build a Forest

(2022), single channel cine-essay, 16mm 
dir. Jenn Tran | 06”34’ | AUSTRALIA


Centering her perspective from Agnes Denes' land artwork 'A Forest For Australia' (1998), a scientist from a distant future returns to Earth to understand how her colony might build its first forest. What begins as a scientific mission becomes a meditation on place, memory and the weight of progress.


director, animator, producer: Jenn Tran
writers: Kelly Bartholomeusz, Jenn Tran
sound designer, composer: Mara Schwerdferger
camera operator, cinematographer: Veronica Charmont
voice over: Jessica Douglas-Henry
16mm processing & scanning: nanolab,MEMEORY Lab, Jordan James Kaye
additional support: Damien Laing, HRAFF & Directors Circle, Footscray Community Arts, Robert Stephenson, Docklands Library Makerspace, OPEN Lab, SOUND KITCHEN, Scout Management, Greater Western Water 

Comissioned by Human Rights & Arts Film Festival
I respectfully acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land - the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, their spirits, ancestors, elders and community members past and present.
Always was, always will be, Aboriginal Land. 


© Jenn Tran 2026