Fuck for Forest

Visions, North American premiere
D: Michal Marczak

Polish filmmaker Michal Marczak’s Fuck for Forest focuses on a Berlin charity of the same name, which runs on the idea that performing and distributing pornography on the Internet (and in public) can be used for more than material exploitation – it can possibly save a rainforest. As the film opens, we meet Danny, a naive musician who has run away from his dysfunctional family in Norway and arrived in Berlin, where he quickly falls in with Fuck for Forest’s free-love figureheads, Tommy, Leona, and Natty. In Berlin, their Internet “eco-porn” is somewhat accepted as performance art. Two-thirds of the way through the film, the group makes a trip to a village in Peru, which is in danger of deforestation, and Marczak finally reveals the fissures; their idealistic cause is not universally understood, and they are laughed out of town. The aimlessness of their cause is apparent almost immediately, but we don’t ever get a sense of what their mission really is.

Saturday, March 16, 6:30pm, Topfer

This article appears in March 15 • 2013.

A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austin’s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press. If real news is important to you, please consider making a donation of $5, $10 or whatever you can afford, to help keep our journalism on stands.

SUPPORT US